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[ncm] Reserve headroom in received packets

Some protocols (such as ARP) may modify the received packet and re-use
the same I/O buffer for transmission of a reply.  To allow this,
reserve sufficient headroom at the start of each received packet
buffer for our transmit datapath headers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
tags/v1.20.1
Michael Brown 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
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      src/drivers/net/ncm.c

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src/drivers/net/ncm.c View File

@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ static void ncm_in_complete ( struct usb_endpoint *ep, struct io_buffer *iobuf,
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 	size_t ndp_len;
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 	size_t pkt_offset;
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 	size_t pkt_len;
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+	size_t headroom;
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 	size_t len;
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 	/* Profile overall bulk IN completion */
@@ -460,13 +461,22 @@ static void ncm_in_complete ( struct usb_endpoint *ep, struct io_buffer *iobuf,
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 		 * while the device is running.  We therefore copy the
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 		 * data to a new I/O buffer even if this is the only
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 		 * (or last) packet within the buffer.
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+		 *
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+		 * We reserve enough space at the start of each buffer
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+		 * to allow for our own transmission header, to
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+		 * support protocols such as ARP which may modify the
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+		 * received packet and reuse the same I/O buffer for
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+		 * transmission.
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 		 */
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-		pkt = alloc_iob ( pkt_len );
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+		headroom = ( sizeof ( struct ncm_ntb_header ) +
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+			     ncm->out.padding );
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+		pkt = alloc_iob ( headroom + pkt_len );
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 		if ( ! pkt ) {
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 			/* Record error and continue */
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 			netdev_rx_err ( netdev, NULL, -ENOMEM );
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 			continue;
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 		}
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+		iob_reserve ( pkt, headroom );
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 		memcpy ( iob_put ( pkt, pkt_len ),
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 			 ( iobuf->data + pkt_offset ), pkt_len );
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