[PATCH v3 03/13] tile: avoid bug in tilepro net driver built with old hypervisor

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 15:39:09 EST


Building against headers from an older Tilera hypervisor can cause
the frags[] array to be overrun. Don't enable TSO in that case.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
index 327ff7b..2f4b7b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ static int tile_net_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)

unsigned int csum_start = skb_checksum_start_offset(skb);

- lepp_frag_t frags[LEPP_MAX_FRAGS];
+ lepp_frag_t frags[1 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS];

unsigned int num_frags;

@@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static int tile_net_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
unsigned int cmd_head, cmd_tail, cmd_next;
unsigned int comp_tail;

- lepp_cmd_t cmds[LEPP_MAX_FRAGS];
+ lepp_cmd_t cmds[1 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS];


/*
@@ -2332,7 +2332,10 @@ static void tile_net_setup(struct net_device *dev)
features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
features |= NETIF_F_SG;
- features |= NETIF_F_TSO;
+
+ /* We support TSO iff the HV supports sufficient frags. */
+ if (LEPP_MAX_FRAGS >= 1 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+ features |= NETIF_F_TSO;

/* We can't support HIGHDMA without hash_default, since we need
* to be able to finv() with a VA if we don't have hash_default.
--
1.8.3.1

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