This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/qeth: no ETH header for outbound AF_IUCV to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-qeth-no-eth-header-for-outbound-af_iucv.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 10:55:04 CET 2017 From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:55:09 +0100 Subject: s390/qeth: no ETH header for outbound AF_IUCV From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit acd9776b5c45ef02d1a210969a6fcc058afb76e3 ] With AF_IUCV traffic, the skb passed to hard_start_xmit() has a 14 byte slot at skb->data, intended for an ETH header. qeth_l3_fill_af_iucv_hdr() fills this ETH header... and then immediately moves it to the skb's headroom, where it disappears and is never seen again. But it's still possible for us to return NETDEV_TX_BUSY after the skb has been modified. Since we didn't get a private copy of the skb, the next time the skb is delivered to hard_start_xmit() it no longer has the expected layout (we moved the ETH header to the headroom, so skb->data now starts at the IUCV_TRANS header). So when qeth_l3_fill_af_iucv_hdr() does another round of rebuilding, the resulting qeth header ends up all wrong. On transmission, the buffer is then rejected by the HiperSockets device with SBALF15 = x'04'. When this error is passed back to af_iucv as TX_NOTIFY_UNREACHABLE, it tears down the offending socket. As the ETH header for AF_IUCV serves no purpose, just align the code to what we do for IP traffic on L3 HiperSockets: keep the ETH header at skb->data, and pass down data_offset = ETH_HLEN to qeth_fill_buffer(). When mapping the payload into the SBAL elements, the ETH header is then stripped off. This avoids the skb manipulations in qeth_l3_fill_af_iucv_hdr(), and any buffer re-entering hard_start_xmit() after NETDEV_TX_BUSY is now processed properly. Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c @@ -2769,17 +2769,13 @@ static void qeth_l3_fill_af_iucv_hdr(str char daddr[16]; struct af_iucv_trans_hdr *iucv_hdr; - skb_pull(skb, 14); - card->dev->header_ops->create(skb, card->dev, 0, - card->dev->dev_addr, card->dev->dev_addr, - card->dev->addr_len); - skb_pull(skb, 14); - iucv_hdr = (struct af_iucv_trans_hdr *)skb->data; memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(struct qeth_hdr)); hdr->hdr.l3.id = QETH_HEADER_TYPE_LAYER3; hdr->hdr.l3.ext_flags = 0; - hdr->hdr.l3.length = skb->len; + hdr->hdr.l3.length = skb->len - ETH_HLEN; hdr->hdr.l3.flags = QETH_HDR_IPV6 | QETH_CAST_UNICAST; + + iucv_hdr = (struct af_iucv_trans_hdr *) (skb->data + ETH_HLEN); memset(daddr, 0, sizeof(daddr)); daddr[0] = 0xfe; daddr[1] = 0x80; @@ -2962,10 +2958,7 @@ static int qeth_l3_hard_start_xmit(struc if ((card->info.type == QETH_CARD_TYPE_IQD) && (!large_send) && (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags == 0)) { new_skb = skb; - if (new_skb->protocol == ETH_P_AF_IUCV) - data_offset = 0; - else - data_offset = ETH_HLEN; + data_offset = ETH_HLEN; hdr = kmem_cache_alloc(qeth_core_header_cache, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!hdr) goto tx_drop; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/s390-qeth-no-eth-header-for-outbound-af_iucv.patch