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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usbnet: allow rx_process() to ignore packets
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On Sunday 05 September 2010 23:35:15 David Brownell wrote:
> > > > From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
> > > > Subject: [PATCH] usbnet: allow rx_process() to
> >
> > ignore packets
> >
> > > It already can ... I'm already not
> > > liking this patch...
>
> You didn't explain why "ignore". As a rule, if
> the network peer is sending garbage, that needs
> to be accounted as an error, not igored. You seem
> to be complaining about accounting garbage as such.

It's not a garbage, just a packet that is not yet complete.

> rx_process() knows only two cases:
> > either rx_fixup()
> > returns 0 or a non-zero value. If I return 0,
> > the error counter is incremented.
>
> So don't return zero, when you're not trying to
> indicate an error. ... easy.

If I return 1, the incomplete packet would be passed up the stack.

> > If I return non-zero value, packet is
> > processed ("passed up the
> > stack" - usbnet_skb_return() called)
> > if the skb has non-zero length,
>
> Exactly -- that's how the minidriver says that
> it stripped framing off the packet, so other
> code should pass the packet up the stack.
>
>
> Have you tried emptying the SKB (len zero) to
> indicate you've consumed all of its contents?
> (Or in your case, "ignored"). That would seem to
> be more like what you want to do ... ISTR that the
> network stack cleanly handles empty SKBs; if not,
> maybe it should.

Yes, I have tried it - in fact, this is that cx82310_eth does now. It does not
work because rx_process() in usbnet.c checks if the skb is empty - and
increments the error counter if it is. Maybe it should not?

--
Ondrej Zary


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