RE: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12

[Eric Dumazet]

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 14:43 +0000, David Laight wrote:

> It isn't directly a TSO problem.
> There has always been a bug in the xhci driver for fragmented buffers.
> TSO just means it is given a lot of fragmented buffers.
> 
> As well as user-supplied fragmented buffers, the bug affects
> internal fragmentation that happens whenever a buffer crosses a 64k
> byte boundary (please hw engineers - stop doing this!)

TCP stack uses order-3 allocations.

This means 32KB for x86 (PAGE_SIZE=4096)

What is PAGE_SIZE for your arches ?

If there is a 6KB limit, we might adapt TCP to make sure we do not cross
a 64KB boundary.

Other strategy would be to detect this case in the driver and split a
problematic segment into two parts.

> 
> I'm not sure whether usbnet would ever pass buffers that cross 64k
> boundaries. I've not seen one - even with TSO. But the rx buffers
> are 20k (doesn't seem ideal!) and could also be problematical.
> 
> USB mass storage has used SG for ages, the buffers must all be
> adequately aligned for the hardware - they won't meet the constraint
> for USB3 itself, but the documented restriction may be more severe
> than the actual one.


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