[PATCH 00/10] net: fix problems handling trailing bytes

[Ahmad Fatoum]

On 04.04.24 20:39, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> This started by pinging a Raspberry Pi 3b running barebox sitting behind
> a router employing conntrack. The router discarded the ping responses
> due to the wrong ICMP checksum and these issues do not pop up normally
> because the ping command itself doesn't bother to verify the checksum.

Fix for iputils ping(1) here: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/534

> 
> This unearthed issues in two drivers as well as the barebox network
> stack itself.
> 
> See the commit messages for details.
> 
> Ahmad Fatoum (10):
>   net: free packets with net_free_packet
>   net: ip: don't blindly trust driver supplied frame size
>   net: icmp: don't blindly trust driver supplied frame size
>   net: icmp: properly set IP TTL and fragement fields
>   net: icmp: don't overrun buffer on send
>   net: cpsw: report correct frame size to network stack
>   net: usb: smsc95xx: don't opencode get/put_aligned_le32
>   net: usb: smsc95xx: don't blindly trust hardware size
>   net: usb: smsc95xx: fix handling of multiple packets per urb
>   net: usb: smsc95xx: disable HW checksumming in driver
> 
>  drivers/net/cpsw.c         |  7 +++-
>  drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  net/net.c                  | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 

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