Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tg3: Allow for receive of full-size 8021AD frames

From: Prashant Sreedharan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:14:35 -0700

On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 15:59 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 18:23 -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> > When receiving a vlan-tagged frame that still contains
> > a vlan header, the length of the packet will be greater
> > then MTU+ETH_HLEN since it will account of the extra
> > vlan header.  TG3 checks this for the case for 802.1Q,
> > but not for 802.1ad.  As a result, full sized 802.1ad
> > frames get dropped by the card.
> > 
> > Add a check for 802.1ad protocol when receiving full
> > sized frames.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Prashant Sreedharan <[email-masked]>
> > CC: Prashant Sreedharan <[email-masked]>
> > CC: Michael Chan <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> > index 0a0938d..4f674f9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
> > @@ -6918,7 +6918,8 @@ static int tg3_rx(struct tg3_napi *tnapi, int budget)
> >  		skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, tp->dev);
> >  
> >  		if (len > (tp->dev->mtu + ETH_HLEN) &&
> > -		    skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_8021Q)) {
> > +		    skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_8021Q) &&
> > +		    skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_8021AD)) {
> >  			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> >  			goto drop_it_no_recycle;
> >  		}
> 
> Really I do not understand what is the value of this check.
> 
> If NIC is dumb enough to send oversized frames, what prevents these
> frames being VLAN ones, and this test wont avoid the crash anyway ?
> 
The NIC will not receive frames of size > mtu + ETH_HLEN + VLAN_HLEN it
will update the oversize_frame count and drop it. The check is to make
sure the additional 4 bytes is due to a valid vlan header.