On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 13:01 -0700, Petri Gynther wrote:
> skb_len needs to be skb_headlen(skb) in bcmgenet_xmit_single().
> 
> Fragmented skbs can have only Ethernet + IP + TCP headers (14+20+20=54 bytes)
> in the linear buffer, followed by the rest in fragments. Bumping skb_len to
> ETH_ZLEN would be incorrect for this case, as it would introduce garbage
> between TCP header and the fragment data.
> 
> This also works with regular/non-fragmented small packets < ETH_ZLEN bytes.
> Successfully tested this on GENETv3 with 42-byte ARP frames.
> 
> For testing, I used:
> ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv4 off
> ethtool -K eth0 tx-checksum-ipv6 off
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynt...@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c 
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> index 9990582..00da239 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c
> @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int bcmgenet_xmit_single(struct net_device *dev,
>  
>       tx_cb_ptr->skb = skb;
>  
> -     skb_len = skb_headlen(skb) < ETH_ZLEN ? ETH_ZLEN : skb_headlen(skb);
> +     skb_len = skb_headlen(skb);
>  
>       mapping = dma_map_single(kdev, skb->data, skb_len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
>       ret = dma_mapping_error(kdev, mapping);

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>


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