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Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set gso_type

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On 10/25/2016 07:09 PM, Jon Maxwell wrote:
> We recently encountered a bug where a few customers using ibmveth on the 
> same LPAR hit an issue where a TCP session hung when large receive was
> enabled. Closer analysis revealed that the session was stuck because the 
> one side was advertising a zero window repeatedly.
>
> We narrowed this down to the fact the ibmveth driver did not set gso_size 
> which is translated by TCP into the MSS later up the stack. The MSS is 
> used to calculate the TCP window size and as that was abnormally large, 
> it was calculating a zero window, even although the sockets receive buffer 
> was completely empty. 
>
> We were able to reproduce this and worked with IBM to fix this. Thanks Tom 
> and Marcelo for all your help and review on this.
>
> The patch fixes both our internal reproduction tests and our customers tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Thanks, Jon.

Acked-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> index 29c05d0..c51717e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
> @@ -1182,6 +1182,8 @@ static int ibmveth_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  	int frames_processed = 0;
>  	unsigned long lpar_rc;
>  	struct iphdr *iph;
> +	bool large_packet = 0;
> +	u16 hdr_len = ETH_HLEN + sizeof(struct tcphdr);
>
>  restart_poll:
>  	while (frames_processed < budget) {
> @@ -1236,10 +1238,28 @@ static int ibmveth_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
>  						iph->check = 0;
>  						iph->check = ip_fast_csum((unsigned char *)iph, iph->ihl);
>  						adapter->rx_large_packets++;
> +						large_packet = 1;
>  					}
>  				}
>  			}
>
> +			if (skb->len > netdev->mtu) {
> +				iph = (struct iphdr *)skb->data;
> +				if (be16_to_cpu(skb->protocol) == ETH_P_IP &&
> +				    iph->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) {
> +					hdr_len += sizeof(struct iphdr);
> +					skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV4;
> +					skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = netdev->mtu - hdr_len;
> +				} else if (be16_to_cpu(skb->protocol) == ETH_P_IPV6 &&
> +					   iph->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) {
> +					hdr_len += sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
> +					skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
> +					skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = netdev->mtu - hdr_len;
> +				}
> +				if (!large_packet)
> +					adapter->rx_large_packets++;
> +			}
> +
>  			napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);	/* send it up */
>
>  			netdev->stats.rx_packets++;

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[PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set gso_type Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-27 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 17:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-27 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set gso_type Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-02 22:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set gso_type Jonathan Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 22:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-09 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH net-next] ibmveth: v1 calculate correct gso_size and set  gso_type Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-11 19:20 +0100

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