[netdevice] Limit MTU by hardware maximum frame length
Separate out the concept of "hardware maximum supported frame length"
and "configured link MTU", and limit the latter according to the
former.
In networks where the DHCP-supplied link MTU is inconsistent with the
hardware or driver capabilities (e.g. a network using jumbo frames),
this will result in iPXE advertising a TCP MSS consistent with a size
that can actually be received.
Note that the term "MTU" is typically used to refer to the maximum
length excluding the link-layer headers; we adopt this usage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow network devices to disclaim IRQ support at runtime
VLAN and 802.11 devices use a network device operations structure that
wraps an underlying structure. For example, the vlan_operations
structure wraps the network device operations structure of the
underlying trunk device. This can cause false positives from the
current implementation of netdev_irq_supported(), which will always
report that VLAN devices support interrupts since it has no visibility
into the support provided by the underlying trunk device.
Fix by allowing network devices to explicitly flag that interrupts are
not supported, despite the presence of an irq() method.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add a generic concept of a "blocked link"
When Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is used, there may be a substantial
delay (tens of seconds) from the time that the link goes up to the
time that the port starts forwarding packets.
Add a generic concept of a "blocked link" (i.e. a link which is up but
which is not expected to communicate successfully), and allow "ifstat"
to indicate when a link is blocked.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Reject network devices which appear to be duplicates of those already
available via a different underlying hardware device. On a Xen PV-HVM
system, this allows us to filter out the emulated PCI NICs (which
would otherwise appear alongside the netfront NICs).
Note that we cannot use the Xen facility to "unplug" the emulated PCI
NICs, since there is no guarantee that the OS we subsequently load
will have a native netfront driver.
We permit devices with the same MAC address if they are attached to
the same underlying hardware device (e.g. VLAN devices).
Inspired-by: Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add generic concept of a network device configurator
iPXE supports multiple mechanisms for network device configuration:
DHCPv4 for IPv4, FIP for FCoE, and SLAAC for IPv6. At present, DHCPv4
requires an explicit action (e.g. a "dhcp" command), FIP is initiated
implicitly upon opening a network device, and SLAAC takes place
whenever a RA happens to be received.
Add a generic concept of a network device configurator, which provides
a common interface to triggering configuration and to reporting the
result of the configuration process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
IPv6 link-local socket addresses require some way to specify a local
network device. We cannot simply use a pointer to the network device,
since a struct sockaddr_in6 may be long-lived and has no way to hold a
reference to the network device.
Using a network device index allows a socket address to cleanly refer
to a network device without worrying about whether or not that device
continues to exist.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Create an explicit concept of "settings scope" and eliminate the magic
values used for numerical setting tags.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer transmissions
Devices with small transmit descriptor rings may temporarily run out
of space. Provide netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer packets
for retransmission as soon as a descriptor becomes available.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipoib] Expose Ethernet-compatible eIPoIB link-layer addresses and headers
Almost all clients of the raw-packet interfaces (UNDI and SNP) can
handle only Ethernet link layers. Expose an Ethernet-compatible link
layer to local clients, while remaining compatible with IPoIB on the
wire. This requires manipulation of ARP (but not DHCP) packets within
the IPoIB driver.
This is ugly, but it's the only viable way to allow IPoIB devices to
be driven via the raw-packet interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()
Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is
multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than
relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow non-completion TX errors to be recorded
Allow TX errors to be recorded against a network device even when the
packet didn't make it as far as netdev_tx().
Inspired-by: Dominik Russenberger <dominik.russenberger@terreactive.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Formalise notion of setting applicability
Expose a function setting_applies() to allow a caller to determine
whether or not a particular setting is applicable to a particular
settings block.
Restrict DHCP-backed settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based
settings.
Restrict network device settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based
settings and network device-specific settings such as "mac".
Inspired-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Apply settings block name in register_settings()
Pass the settings block name as a parameter to register_settings(),
rather than defining it with settings_init() (and then possibly
changing it by directly manipulating settings->name).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow per-device receive queue processing to be frozen
Several use cases (e.g. the UNDI API and the EFI SNP API) require
access to the raw network device receive queue, and so currently use
manual calls to netdev_poll() on a specific network device in order to
prevent received packets from being processed by the network stack.
As an alternative, provide a flag that allows receive queue processing
to be frozen on a per-device basis. When receive queue processing is
frozen, packets will be enqueued as normal, but will not be
automatically dequeued and passed up the network stack.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Pass both link-layer addresses in net_tx() and net_rx()
FCoE requires the use of fabric-provided MAC addresses, which breaks
the assumption that the net device's MAC address is implicitly the
source address for net_tx() and the (unicast) destination address for
net_rx().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add the concept of a network upper-layer driver
Add the concept of a network upper-layer driver, which can create
arbitrary devices on top of network devices.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add the concept of an "Ethernet-compatible" MAC address
The iBFT is Ethernet-centric in providing only six bytes for a MAC
address. This is most probably an indirect consequence of a similar
design flaw in the Windows NDIS stack. (The WinOF IPoIB stack
performs all sorts of contortions in order to pretend to the NDIS
layer that it is dealing with six-byte MAC addresses.)
There is no sensible way in which to extend the iBFT without breaking
compatibility with programs that expect to parse it. Add the notion
of an "Ethernet-compatible" MAC address to our link layer abstraction,
so that link layers can provide their own workarounds for this
limitation.
[netdevice] Allow the hardware and link-layer addresses to differ in size
IPoIB has a 20-byte link-layer address, of which only eight bytes
represent anything relating to a "hardware address".
The PXE and EFI SNP APIs expect the permanent address to be the same
size as the link-layer address, so fill in the "permanent address"
field with the initial link layer address (as generated by
register_netdev() based upon the real hardware address).
[netdevice] Separate out the concept of hardware and link-layer addresses
The hardware address is an intrinsic property of the hardware, while
the link-layer address can be changed at runtime. This separation is
exposed via APIs such as PXE and EFI, but is currently elided by gPXE.
Expose the hardware and link-layer addresses as separate properties
within a net device. Drivers should now fill in hw_addr, which will
be used to initialise ll_addr at the time of calling
register_netdev().
[netdevice] Make ll_broadcast per-netdevice rather than per-ll_protocol
IPoIB has a link-layer broadcast address that varies according to the
partition key. We currently go through several contortions to pretend
that the link-layer address is a fixed constant; by making the
broadcast address a property of the network device rather than the
link-layer protocol it will be possible to simplify IPoIB's broadcast
handling.
[netdevice] Add mechanism for reporting detailed link status codes
Expand the NETDEV_LINK_UP bit into a link_rc status code field,
allowing specific reasons for link failure to be reported via
"ifstat".
Originally-authored-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
[netdevice] Add netdev argument to link-layer push and pull handlers
In order to construct outgoing link-layer frames or parse incoming
ones properly, some protocols (such as 802.11) need more state than is
available in the existing variables passed to the link-layer protocol
handlers. To remedy this, add struct net_device *netdev as the first
argument to each of these functions, so that more information can be
fetched from the link layer-private part of the network device.
Updated all three call sites (netdevice.c, efi_snp.c, pxe_undi.c) and
both implementations (ethernet.c, ipoib.c) of ll_protocol to use the
new argument.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
[netdevice] Fix incorrect value for MAX_LL_HEADER_LEN
MAX_LL_HEADER_LEN is erroneously set to 6 rather than 14, resulting
in possible data corruption whenever we send an ARP packet.
Fix value and add a comment explaining why MAX_LL_ADDR_LEN is greater
than MAX_LL_HEADER_LEN.
Reported-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
[tables] Incorporate table data type information into table definition
Eliminate the potential for mismatches between table names and the
table entry data type by incorporating the data type into the
definition of the table, rather than specifying it explicitly in each
table accessor method.
[tables] Redefine methods for accessing linker tables
Intel's C compiler (icc) chokes on the zero-length arrays that we
currently use as part of the mechanism for accessing linker table
entries. Abstract away the zero-length arrays, to make a port to icc
easier.
Introduce macros such as for_each_table_entry() to simplify the common
case of iterating over all entries in a linker table.
Represent table names as #defined string constants rather than
unquoted literals; this avoids visual confusion between table names
and C variable or type names, and also allows us to force a
compilation error in the event of incorrect table names.
[netdevice] Provide function to retrieve the most recently opened net device
There are currently four places within the codebase that use a
heuristic to guess the "boot network device", with varying degrees of
success. Add a feature to the net device core to maintain a list of
open network devices, in order of opening, and provide a function
last_opened_netdev() to retrieve the most recently opened net device.
This should do a better job than the current assortment of
guess_boot_netdev() functions.
Some Infiniband cards will not be as accommodating as the Arbel and
Hermon cards in providing enough space for us to push a fake extra
header at the start of the received packet. We must therefore make do
with squeezing enough information to identify source and destination
addresses into the two bytes of padding within a genuine IPoIB
link-layer header.
[netdevice] Retain and report detailed error breakdowns
netdev_rx_err() and netdev_tx_complete_err() get passed the error
code, but currently use it only in debug messages.
Retain error numbers and frequencey counts for up to
NETDEV_MAX_UNIQUE_ERRORS (4) different errors for each of TX and RX.
This allows the "ifstat" command to report the reasons for TX/RX
errors in most cases, even in non-debug builds.
[netdevice] Change link-layer push() and pull() methods to take raw types
EFI requires us to be able to specify the source address for
individual transmitted packets, and to be able to extract the
destination address on received packets.
Take advantage of this to rationalise the push() and pull() methods so
that push() takes a (dest,source,proto) tuple and pull() returns a
(dest,source,proto) tuple.
[netdevice] Split multicast hashing out into an mc_hash method
Multicast hashing is an ugly overlap between network and link layers.
EFI requires us to provide access to this functionality, so move it
out of ipv4.c and expose it as a method of the link layer.
[undi] Fill in ProtType correctly in PXENV_UNDI_ISR
Determine the network-layer packet type and fill it in for UNDI
clients. This is required by some NBPs such as emBoot's winBoot/i.
This change requires refactoring the link-layer portions of the
gPXE netdevice API, so that it becomes possible to strip the
link-layer header without passing the packet up the network stack.
Add ability for network devices to flag link up/down state to the
networking core.
Autobooting code will now wait for link-up before attempting DHCP.
IPoIB reflects the Infiniband link state as the network device link state
(which is not strictly correct; we also need a succesful IPoIB IPv4
broadcast group join), but is probably more informative.
Michael Brown