Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix struct rmnet_map_header

From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
To: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: syadagir@codeaurora.org, ejcaruso@google.com, arnd@arndb.de,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org,
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	bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, david.brown@linaro.org,
	agross@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix struct rmnet_map_header
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 14:11:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0edef36555877350cfbab2248f8baac@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190520135354.18628-2-elder@linaro.org>

On 2019-05-20 07:53, Alex Elder wrote:
> The C bit-fields in the first byte of the rmnet_map_header structure
> are defined in the wrong order.  The first byte should be formatted
> this way:
>                  +------- reserved_bit
>                  | +----- cd_bit
>                  | |
>                  v v
>     +-----------+-+-+
>     |  pad_len  |R|C|
>     +-----------+-+-+
>      7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0  <-- bit position
> 
> But the C bit-fields that define the first byte are defined this way:
>     u8 pad_len:6;
>     u8 reserved_bit:1;
>     u8 cd_bit:1;
> 

If the above illustration is supposed to be in network byte order,
then it is wrong. The documentation has the definition for the MAP
packet.

Packet format -

Bit             0             1           2-7      8 - 15           16 - 
31
Function   Command / Data   Reserved     Pad   Multiplexer ID    Payload 
length
Bit            32 - x
Function     Raw  Bytes

The driver was written assuming that the host was running ARM64, so
the structs are little endian. (I should have made it compatible
with big and little endian earlier so that is my fault).

In any case, this patch on its own will break the data operation on
ARM64, so it needs to be folded with other patches.

> And although this isn't portable, I can state that when I build it
> the result puts the bit-fields in the wrong location (e.g., the
> cd_bit is in bit position 7, when it should be position 0).
> 
> Fix this by reordering the definitions of these struct members.
> Upcoming patches will reimplement these definitions portably.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h
> index 884f1f52dcc2..b1ae9499c0b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h
> @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ enum rmnet_map_commands {
>  };
> 
>  struct rmnet_map_header {
> -	u8  pad_len:6;
> -	u8  reserved_bit:1;
>  	u8  cd_bit:1;
> +	u8  reserved_bit:1;
> +	u8  pad_len:6;
>  	u8  mux_id;
>  	__be16 pkt_len;
>  }  __aligned(1);

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