Re: [PATCH] net: usb: pegasus: Do not drop long Ethernet frames

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 02:29:30PM +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> The D-Link DSB-650TX (2001:4002) is unable to receive Ethernet frames
> that are longer than 1518 octets, for example, Ethernet frames that
> contain 802.1Q VLAN tags.
> 
> The frames are sent to the pegasus driver via USB but the driver
> discards them because they have the Long_pkt field set to 1 in the
> received status report. The function read_bulk_callback of the pegasus
> driver treats such received "packets" (in the terminology of the
> hardware) as errors but the field simply does just indicate that the
> Ethernet frame (MAC destination to FCS) is longer than 1518 octets.
> 
> It seems that in the 1990s there was a distinction between
> "giant" (> 1518) and "runt" (< 64) frames and the hardware includes
> flags to indicate this distinction. It seems that the purpose of the
> distinction "giant" frames was to not allow infinitely long frames due
> to transmission errors and to allow hardware to have an upper limit of
> the frame size. However, the hardware already has such limit with its
> 2048 octet receive buffer and, therefore, Long_pkt is merely a
> convention and should not be treated as a receive error.
> 
> Actually, the hardware is even able to receive Ethernet frames with 2048
> octets which exceeds the claimed limit frame size limit of the driver of
> 1536 octets (PEGASUS_MTU).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> index 140d11ae6688..2582daf23015 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> @@ -499,11 +499,11 @@ static void read_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
>  		goto goon;
>  
>  	rx_status = buf[count - 2];
> -	if (rx_status & 0x1e) {
> +	if (rx_status & 0x1c) {
>  		netif_dbg(pegasus, rx_err, net,
>  			  "RX packet error %x\n", rx_status);
>  		net->stats.rx_errors++;
> -		if (rx_status & 0x06)	/* long or runt	*/
> +		if (rx_status & 0x04)	/* runt	*/

I've nothing against this patch, but if you are working on the driver,
it would be nice to replace these hex numbers with #defines using BIT,
or FIELD. It will make the code more readable.

   Andrew