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regression: tethering fails in 3.5 with iwlwifi

Message ID 1348145936.2388.18.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Artem Bityutskiy Sept. 20, 2012, 12:58 p.m. UTC
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 14:45 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I guess you only need to make sure 14 bytes of ethernet header are
> available before eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> index 61c621e..ffe5f84 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -1795,9 +1795,13 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
> 
>                 if (skb) {
>                         /* deliver to local stack */
> -                       skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> -                       memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
> -                       netif_receive_skb(skb);
> +                       if (pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr))) {
> +                               skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> +                               memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
> +                               netif_receive_skb(skb);
> +                       } else {
> +                               kfree_skb(skb);
> +                       }
>                 }
>         }

Does not help, this one does:

Comments

Eric Dumazet Sept. 20, 2012, 1:04 p.m. UTC | #1
Try to pull 40 bytes : Thats OK for tcp performance, because 40 bytes
is the minimum size of IP+TCP headers

pskb_may_pull(skb, 40);

(instead of your  skb_linearize(skb);)


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Artem Bityutskiy
<artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 14:45 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> I guess you only need to make sure 14 bytes of ethernet header are
>> available before eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>>
>> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> index 61c621e..ffe5f84 100644
>> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
>> @@ -1795,9 +1795,13 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
>>
>>                 if (skb) {
>>                         /* deliver to local stack */
>> -                       skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>> -                       memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
>> -                       netif_receive_skb(skb);
>> +                       if (pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr))) {
>> +                               skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>> +                               memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
>> +                               netif_receive_skb(skb);
>> +                       } else {
>> +                               kfree_skb(skb);
>> +                       }
>>                 }
>>         }
>
> Does not help, this one does:
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> index 61c621e..6888586 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -1797,6 +1797,7 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
>                         /* deliver to local stack */
>                         skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
>                         memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
> +                       skb_linearize(skb);
>                         netif_receive_skb(skb);
>                 }
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy
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Eric Dumazet Sept. 20, 2012, 1:15 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:04 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Try to pull 40 bytes : Thats OK for tcp performance, because 40 bytes
> is the minimum size of IP+TCP headers
> 
> pskb_may_pull(skb, 40);
> 
> (instead of your  skb_linearize(skb);)

Oh well, I just realize all these mails were on netdev.

Sorry for the noise.


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Patch

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 61c621e..6888586 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1797,6 +1797,7 @@  ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 			/* deliver to local stack */
 			skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
 			memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
+			skb_linearize(skb);
 			netif_receive_skb(skb);
 		}