Re: [PATCH] hv_utils: Set the maximum packet size for VSS driver to the length of the receive buffer

From: Wei Liu
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 15:02:23 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 06:33:10PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 6:39 AM
> >
> > Commit adae1e931acd ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Copy packets sent by Hyper-V out
> > of the ring buffer") introduced a notion of maximum packet size and for
> > KVM and FCOPY drivers set it to the length of the receive buffer. VSS
> > driver wasn't updated, this means that the maximum packet size is now
> > VMBUS_DEFAULT_MAX_PKT_SIZE (4k). Apparently, this is not enough. I'm
> > observing a packet of 6304 bytes which is being truncated to 4096. When
> > VSS driver tries to read next packet from ring buffer it starts from the
> > wrong offset and receives garbage.
> >
> > Set the maximum packet size to 'HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE * 2' in VSS driver. This
> > matches the length of the receive buffer and is in line with other utils
> > drivers.
> >
> > Fixes: adae1e931acd ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Copy packets sent by Hyper-V out of the ring buffer")
> > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Given we're really close to the merge window I'm going to apply this to
hyperv-next.

Wei.