This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio-net: make all RX paths handle errors
to the 3.12-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:
virtio-net-make-all-rx-paths-handle-errors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 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 Mon Jan 13 09:44:41 PST 2014
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:32:51 +0200
Subject: virtio-net: make all RX paths handle errors
consistently
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
receive mergeable now handles errors internally.
Do same for big and small packet paths, otherwise
the logic is too hard to follow.
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit f121159d72091f25afb22007c833e60a6845e912)
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -297,6 +297,34 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struc
return skb;
}
+static struct sk_buff *receive_small(void *buf, unsigned int len)
+{
+ struct sk_buff * skb = buf;
+
+ len -= sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr);
+ skb_trim(skb, len);
+
+ return skb;
+}
+
+static struct sk_buff *receive_big(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct receive_queue *rq,
+ void *buf)
+{
+ struct page *page = buf;
+ struct sk_buff *skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, 0);
+
+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ goto err;
+
+ return skb;
+
+err:
+ dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+ give_pages(rq, page);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
struct receive_queue *rq,
void *buf,
@@ -360,7 +388,6 @@ static void receive_buf(struct receive_q
struct net_device *dev = vi->dev;
struct virtnet_stats *stats = this_cpu_ptr(vi->stats);
struct sk_buff *skb;
- struct page *page;
struct skb_vnet_hdr *hdr;
if (unlikely(len < sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr) + ETH_HLEN)) {
@@ -372,26 +399,15 @@ static void receive_buf(struct receive_q
dev_kfree_skb(buf);
return;
}
+ if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
+ skb = receive_mergeable(dev, rq, buf, len);
+ else if (vi->big_packets)
+ skb = receive_big(dev, rq, buf);
+ else
+ skb = receive_small(buf, len);
- if (!vi->mergeable_rx_bufs && !vi->big_packets) {
- skb = buf;
- len -= sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr);
- skb_trim(skb, len);
- } else {
- page = buf;
- if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
- skb = receive_mergeable(dev, rq, page, len);
- if (unlikely(!skb))
- return;
- } else {
- skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, len);
- if (unlikely(!skb)) {
- dev->stats.rx_dropped++;
- give_pages(rq, page);
- return;
- }
- }
- }
+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ return;
hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mst@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/macvtap-signal-truncated-packets.patch
queue-3.12/virtio_net-fix-error-handling-for-mergeable-buffers.patch
queue-3.12/tun-unbreak-truncated-packet-signalling.patch
queue-3.12/virtio-net-make-all-rx-paths-handle-errors.patch
queue-3.12/macvtap-do-not-double-count-received-packets.patch
queue-3.12/br-fix-use-of-rx_handler_data-in-code-executed-on-non-rx_handler-path.patch
queue-3.12/virtio-net-fix-refill-races-during-restore.patch
queue-3.12/virtio_net-don-t-leak-memory-or-block-when-too-many-frags.patch
queue-3.12/virtio-delete-napi-structures-from-netdev-before-releasing-memory.patch
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