Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [1/2]: explicitly set minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:50:28 EDT, Ed L Cashin said:
> "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> writes:
> 
> ...
> > Explicitly set the minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN.
> >
> > Index: 2.6.14-rc2-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- 2.6.14-rc2-aoe.orig/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c	2005-09-26 12:20:34.000000000 -0400
> > +++ 2.6.14-rc2-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c	2005-09-26 12:27:49.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
> >  {
> >  	struct sk_buff *skb;
> >  
> > +	if (len < ETH_ZLEN)
> > +		len = ETH_ZLEN;
> > +
> >  	skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
> 
> This change fixes some strange problems observed on a system that was
> using the e1000 network driver.  Is the network driver supposed to
> ensure that ethernet packets are up to spec, at least 60 bytes long?

I haven't chased through the code in detail - will this change ensure that
all ETH_ZLEN bytes are initialized?  We had a bunch of drivers a few years
ago that set the length to the legal min, but then only copied some smaller
number of bytes in, resulting in leakage of kernel memory contents....

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