From: Antonio Quartulli antonio@open-mesh.com
every batman-adv encapsulated packet is supposed to begin with an Ethernet header plus 2 bytes for correct alignment on 4 bytes boundary.
However, even if allocations are made correctly, the final encapsulation is not made properly since the encapsulating function does not push NET_IP_ALIGN bytes other than ETH_HLEN.
Fix it by pushing the correct amount of bytes.
Introduced by 7f91790974c258e71a62f6dee8cb1dbe5dff36c3 ("batman-adv: Reserve extra bytes in skb for better alignment")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli antonio@open-mesh.com ---
Please review this patch as I am not 100% sure this is correct. What I understood is that any batman-adv should have this shape:
+--------------+ | ETH_HEADER | | | +--------------+ | NET_IP_ALIGN | +--------------+ | BATADV_HEADER| +--------------+ | ... |
but by pushing ETH_HLEN only, we end up in a shorter packet, because the head pointer is not moved up enough to contain the NET_IP_ALIGN bytes too (so we are back to the situation where our headers are not properly placed in memory).
Cheers,
send.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/send.c b/send.c index a67cffd..a338093 100644 --- a/send.c +++ b/send.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int batadv_send_skb_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, }
/* push to the ethernet header. */ - if (batadv_skb_head_push(skb, ETH_HLEN) < 0) + if (batadv_skb_head_push(skb, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN) < 0) goto send_skb_err;
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:59:35PM +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
From: Antonio Quartulli antonio@open-mesh.com
every batman-adv encapsulated packet is supposed to begin with an Ethernet header plus 2 bytes for correct alignment on 4 bytes boundary.
However, even if allocations are made correctly, the final encapsulation is not made properly since the encapsulating function does not push NET_IP_ALIGN bytes other than ETH_HLEN.
Fix it by pushing the correct amount of bytes.
Introduced by 7f91790974c258e71a62f6dee8cb1dbe5dff36c3 ("batman-adv: Reserve extra bytes in skb for better alignment")
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli antonio@open-mesh.com
This patch can be dropped. We don't want to send those two extra bytes, we use them only for local memory alignment.
Sorry about that.
Cheers,
b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org