Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over Thunderbolt cable

[David Miller]

From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:07:38 +0300

> +struct thunderbolt_ip_header {
> +	u32 route_hi;
> +	u32 route_lo;
> +	u32 length_sn;
> +	uuid_t uuid;
> +	uuid_t initiator_uuid;
> +	uuid_t target_uuid;
> +	u32 type;
> +	u32 command_id;
> +} __packed;

Again, the __packed attribute should not be necessary and needs to be
removed.

> +static void tbnet_pull_tail(struct sk_buff *skb)
> +{
> +	skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0];
> +	unsigned int pull_len;
> +	void *hdr;
> +
> +	hdr = skb_frag_address(frag);
> +	pull_len = eth_get_headlen(hdr, TBNET_RX_HDR_SIZE);
> +
> +	/* Align pull length to size of long to optimize memcpy performance */
> +	skb_copy_to_linear_data(skb, hdr, ALIGN(pull_len, sizeof(long)));

You do not need to copy here, instead you can build SKB's where the
skb->data points directly at the head of your first frag page memory.

See build_skb().

> +		skb = net->skb;
> +		if (!skb) {
> +			skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net->dev,
> +							TBNET_RX_HDR_SIZE);
> +			net->skb = skb;
> +		}
> +		if (!skb)
> +			break;
> +
> +		/* Single small buffer we can copy directly to the
> +		 * header part of the skb.
> +		 */
> +		if (hdr->frame_count == 1 && frame_size <= TBNET_RX_HDR_SIZE) {

Here you would use build_skb() instead of netdev_alloc_skb*() for the first
frag, and keep the existing code tacking on subsequent frags using
skb_add_Rx_frag().

> +	ret = register_netdev(dev);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		free_netdev(dev);
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	net->handler.uuid = &tbnet_svc_uuid;
> +	net->handler.callback = tbnet_handle_packet,
> +	net->handler.data = net;
> +	tb_register_protocol_handler(&net->handler);
> +
> +	tb_service_set_drvdata(svc, net);

There could be races here.

At the exact moment you call register_netdev(), your device can be
brought UP, packets transmitted, etc.  You entire set of driver code
paths can be executed.

The rest of those initializations after register_netdev() probably
are needed by the rest of the driver to function properly, so may
need to happen before register_netdev() publishes the device to the
entire world.