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On 2/26/24 15:17, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:33:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>> ...
>>> I think you misunderstand. "NET_IP_ALIGN offset is what the kernel
>>> defines to be supported" is a gross misinterpretation. It is not
>>> "defined to be supported" at all. It is the _preferred_ alignment
>>> nothing more, nothing less.
> 
> This distinction is arbitrary in practice, but I am open to being proven
> wrong if you have data to back up this statement. If the driver chooses
> to not follow this, then the driver might not work. ARM defines the
> NET_IP_ALIGN to be 2 to pad out the header to be on the supported
> alignment. If the driver chooses to pad with one byte instead of 2
> bytes, the driver may fail to work as the CPU may stall after the
> misaligned access.
> 
>>
>> I'm sure I've seen code that would realign IP headers to a 4 byte
>> boundary before processing them - but that might not have been in
>> Linux.
>>
>> I'm also sure there are cpu which will fault double length misaligned
>> memory transfers - which might be used to marginally speed up code.
>> Assuming more than 4 byte alignment for the IP header is likely
>> 'wishful thinking'.
>>
>> There is plenty of ethernet hardware that can only write frames
>> to even boundaries and plenty of cpu that fault misaligned accesses.
>> There are even cases of both on the same silicon die.
>>
>> You also pretty much never want a fault handler to fixup misaligned
>> ethernet frames (or really anything else for that matter).
>> It is always going to be better to check in the code itself.
>>
>> x86 has just made people 'sloppy' :-)
>>
>> 	David
>>
>> -
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>>
> 
> If somebody has a solution they deem to be better, I am happy to change
> this test case. Otherwise, I would appreciate a maintainer resolving
> this discussion and apply this fix.
> 
Agreed.

I do have a couple of patches which add explicit unaligned tests as well as
corner case tests (which are intended to trigger as many carry overflows
as possible). Once I get those working reliably, I'll be happy to submit
them as additional tests.

Thanks,
Guenter