Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] xen/netback: correctly calculate required slots of skb.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:15:11 +0800

> When counting required slots for skb, netback directly uses DIV_ROUND_UP to get
> slots required by header data. This is wrong when offset in the page of header
> data is not zero, and is also inconsistent with following calculation for
> required slot in netbk_gop_skb.
> 
> In netbk_gop_skb, required slots are calculated based on offset and len in page
> of header data. It is possible that required slots here is larger than the one
> calculated in earlier netbk_count_requests. This inconsistency directly results
> in rx_req_cons_peek and xen_netbk_rx_ring_full judgement are wrong.
> 
> Then it comes to situation the ring is actually full, but netback thinks it is
> not and continues to create responses. This results in response overlaps request
> in the ring, then grantcopy gets wrong grant reference and throws out error,
> for example "(XEN) grant_table.c:1763:d0 Bad grant reference 2949120", the
> grant reference is invalid value here. Netback returns XEN_NETIF_RSP_ERROR(-1)
> to netfront when grant copy status is error, then netfront gets rx->status
> (the status is -1, not really data size now), and throws out error,
> "kernel: net eth1: rx->offset: 0, size: 4294967295". This issue can be reproduced
> by doing gzip/gunzip in nfs share with mtu = 9000, the guest would panic after
> running such test for a while.
> 
> This patch is based on 3.10-rc7.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>

A lot of discussion... will we have another respin of this patch or can I
get an ACK from Ian or someone else?

Thanks.