Re: [PATCH net 1/1] uapi: fix big endian definition of ipv6_rpl_sr_hdr

[Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@uliege.be>]

> Le 25 janv. 2021 à 20:32, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> a écrit :
> 
>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:57:03 -0700 David Ahern wrote:
>> On 1/24/21 2:57 AM, Justin Iurman wrote:
>>>> De: "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>
>>>> À: "Justin Iurman" <justin.iurman@uliege.be>
>>>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "alex aring" <alex.aring@gmail.com>
>>>> Envoyé: Dimanche 24 Janvier 2021 05:54:44
>>>> Objet: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] uapi: fix big endian definition of ipv6_rpl_sr_hdr  
>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:00:44 +0100 Justin Iurman wrote:  
>>>>> Following RFC 6554 [1], the current order of fields is wrong for big
>>>>> endian definition. Indeed, here is how the header looks like:
>>>>> 
>>>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>>>> |  Next Header  |  Hdr Ext Len  | Routing Type  | Segments Left |
>>>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>>>> | CmprI | CmprE |  Pad  |               Reserved                |
>>>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>>>> 
>>>>> This patch reorders fields so that big endian definition is now correct.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6554#section-3
>>>>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@uliege.be>  
>>>> 
>>>> Are you sure? This looks right to me.  
>>> 
>>> AFAIK, yes. Did you mean the old (current) one looks right, or the new one? 
> 
> Old one / existing is correct.
> 
>>> If you meant the old/current one, well, I don't understand why the big endian definition would look like this:
>>> 
>>> #elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>>>    __u32    reserved:20,
>>>        pad:4,
>>>        cmpri:4,
>>>        cmpre:4;
>>> 
>>> When the RFC defines the header as follows:
>>> 
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>> | CmprI | CmprE |  Pad  |               Reserved                |
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>> 
>>> The little endian definition looks fine. But, when it comes to big endian, you define fields as you see them on the wire with the same order, right? So the current big endian definition makes no sense. It looks like it was a wrong mix with the little endian conversion.
> 
> Well, you don't list the bit positions in the quote from the RFC, and
> I'm not familiar with the IETF parlor. I'm only

Indeed, sorry for that. Bit positions are available if you follow the link to the RFC I referenced in the patch. It is always defined as network byte order by default (=BE).

> comparing the LE
> definition with the BE. If you claim the BE is wrong, then the LE is
> wrong, too.

Actually, no, it’s not. If you have a look at the header definition from the RFC, you can see that the LE is correct (valid translation from BE, the *new* BE in this patch).

>>>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rpl.h b/include/uapi/linux/rpl.h
>>>>> index 1dccb55cf8c6..708adddf9f13 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/rpl.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/rpl.h
>>>>> @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ struct ipv6_rpl_sr_hdr {
>>>>>        pad:4,
>>>>>        reserved1:16;
>>>>> #elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>>>>> -    __u32    reserved:20,
>>>>> +    __u32    cmpri:4,
>>>>> +        cmpre:4,
>>>>>        pad:4,
>>>>> -        cmpri:4,
>>>>> -        cmpre:4;
>>>>> +        reserved:20;
>>>>> #else
>>>>> #error  "Please fix <asm/byteorder.h>"
>>>>> #endif  
>> 
>> cross-checking with other headers - tcp and vxlan-gpe - this patch looks
>> correct.
> 
> What are you cross-checking?