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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2013-07-23 17:15:54 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-11 18:35:25 -0700
commitebb72f8df2f7ecf3fce7f848fee47d1c5721901f (patch)
tree96f0898de32c6ecb90d4099da9234b8b63bb169e /drivers
parent69af51cb5c56f310d9449150101bf25bd0d8a52d (diff)
usbnet: do not pretend to support SG/TSO
[ Upstream commit 20f0170377264e8449b6987041f0bcc4d746d3ed ] usbnet doesn't support yet SG, so drivers should not advertise SG or TSO capabilities, as they allow TCP stack to build large TSO packets that need to be linearized and might use order-5 pages. This adds an extra copy overhead and possible allocation failures. Current code ignore skb_linearize() return code so crashes are even possible. Best is to not pretend SG/TSO is supported, and add this again when/if usbnet really supports SG for devices who could get a performance gain. Based on a prior patch from Freddy Xin <freddy@asix.com.tw> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c9
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c12
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
index bd8758fa38c..cea1f3d0311 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
@@ -1029,10 +1029,10 @@ static int ax88179_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
dev->mii.supports_gmii = 1;
dev->net->features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
- NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO;
+ NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
dev->net->hw_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
- NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO;
+ NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
/* Enable checksum offload */
*tmp = AX_RXCOE_IP | AX_RXCOE_TCP | AX_RXCOE_UDP |
@@ -1173,7 +1173,6 @@ ax88179_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t flags)
if (((skb->len + 8) % frame_size) == 0)
tx_hdr2 |= 0x80008000; /* Enable padding */
- skb_linearize(skb);
headroom = skb_headroom(skb);
tailroom = skb_tailroom(skb);
@@ -1317,10 +1316,10 @@ static int ax88179_reset(struct usbnet *dev)
1, 1, tmp);
dev->net->features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
- NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO;
+ NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
dev->net->hw_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
- NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO;
+ NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
/* Enable checksum offload */
*tmp = AX_RXCOE_IP | AX_RXCOE_TCP | AX_RXCOE_UDP |
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
index 75409748c77..66ebbacf066 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
#define EEPROM_MAC_OFFSET (0x01)
#define DEFAULT_TX_CSUM_ENABLE (true)
#define DEFAULT_RX_CSUM_ENABLE (true)
-#define DEFAULT_TSO_ENABLE (true)
#define SMSC75XX_INTERNAL_PHY_ID (1)
#define SMSC75XX_TX_OVERHEAD (8)
#define MAX_RX_FIFO_SIZE (20 * 1024)
@@ -1410,17 +1409,14 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
INIT_WORK(&pdata->set_multicast, smsc75xx_deferred_multicast_write);
- if (DEFAULT_TX_CSUM_ENABLE) {
+ if (DEFAULT_TX_CSUM_ENABLE)
dev->net->features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM;
- if (DEFAULT_TSO_ENABLE)
- dev->net->features |= NETIF_F_SG |
- NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6;
- }
+
if (DEFAULT_RX_CSUM_ENABLE)
dev->net->features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
dev->net->hw_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
- NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6 | NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
+ NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
ret = smsc75xx_wait_ready(dev, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
@@ -2200,8 +2196,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *smsc75xx_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev,
{
u32 tx_cmd_a, tx_cmd_b;
- skb_linearize(skb);
-
if (skb_headroom(skb) < SMSC75XX_TX_OVERHEAD) {
struct sk_buff *skb2 =
skb_copy_expand(skb, SMSC75XX_TX_OVERHEAD, 0, flags);