[PATCH 02/12] tile: avoid bug in tilepro net driver built with old hypervisor

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Wed Jul 31 2013 - 11:26:29 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, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
index 63fd9cc..cb67df7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilepro.c
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ 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;

@@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@ 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];


/*
@@ -2342,8 +2342,9 @@ static void tile_net_setup(struct net_device *dev)
/* We support scatter/gather. */
dev->features |= NETIF_F_SG;

- /* We support TSO. */
- dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO;
+ /* We support TSO iff the HV supports sufficient frags. */
+ if (LEPP_MAX_FRAGS >= 1 + MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+ dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO;

#ifdef TILE_NET_GSO
/* We support GSO. */
--
1.8.3.1

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