Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757924AbbDVVmp (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:42:45 -0400 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:45564 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751000AbbDVVmn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:42:43 -0400 Message-ID: <553815CD.1000407@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:42:37 -0500 From: Thomas Falcon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Gibson , anton@au1.ibm.com CC: michael@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] ibmveth: Fix off-by-one error in ibmveth_change_mtu() References: <1429578471-9717-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <1429578471-9717-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15042221-0029-0000-0000-000009492FDB Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2401 Lines: 58 On 04/20/2015 08:07 PM, David Gibson wrote: > AFAIK the PAPR document which defines the virtual device interface used by > the ibmveth driver doesn't specify a specific maximum MTU. So, in the > ibmveth driver, the maximum allowed MTU is determined by the maximum > allocated buffer size of 64k (corresponding to one page in the common case) > minus the per-buffer overhead IBMVETH_BUFF_OH (which has value 22 for 14 > bytes of ethernet header, plus 8 bytes for an opaque handle). > > This suggests a maximum allowable MTU of 65514 bytes, but in fact the > driver only permits a maximum MTU of 65513. This is because there is a < > instead of an <= in ibmveth_change_mtu(), which only permits an MTU which > is strictly smaller than the buffer size, rather than allowing the buffer > to be completely filled. > > This patch fixes the buglet. Thanks! Acked-by: Thomas Falcon > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson 1 > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > Changes since v1: > * Fixed a second instance of the same off-by-one error. Thanks to > Thomas Falcon for spotting this. > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c > index cd7675a..1813476 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c > @@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ static int ibmveth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) > return -EINVAL; > > for (i = 0; i < IBMVETH_NUM_BUFF_POOLS; i++) > - if (new_mtu_oh < adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].buff_size) > + if (new_mtu_oh <= adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].buff_size) > break; > > if (i == IBMVETH_NUM_BUFF_POOLS) > @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ static int ibmveth_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu) > for (i = 0; i < IBMVETH_NUM_BUFF_POOLS; i++) { > adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].active = 1; > > - if (new_mtu_oh < adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].buff_size) { > + if (new_mtu_oh <= adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].buff_size) { > dev->mtu = new_mtu; > vio_cmo_set_dev_desired(viodev, > ibmveth_get_desired_dma -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/