openwrt/target/linux/mvebu/patches-4.19/300-mvneta-tx-queue-workaround.patch
Koen Vandeputte 3c3825436e kernel: bump 4.19 to 4.19.115
Refreshed all patches.

Remove upstreamed:
- 600-ipv6-addrconf-call-ipv6_mc_up-for-non-Ethernet-inter.patch
- 184-USB-serial-option-add-Wistron-Neweb-D19Q1.patch

Fixes:
- CVE-2020-8647
- CVE-2020-8648 (potentially)
- CVE-2020-8649

Compile-tested on: cns3xxx
Runtime-tested on: cns3xxx

Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
2020-04-16 13:23:11 +02:00

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The hardware queue scheduling is apparently configured with fixed
priorities, which creates a nasty fairness issue where traffic from one
CPU can starve traffic from all other CPUs.
Work around this issue by forcing all tx packets to go through one CPU,
until this issue is fixed properly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -4271,6 +4271,15 @@ static int mvneta_ethtool_set_eee(struct
return phylink_ethtool_set_eee(pp->phylink, eee);
}
+static u16 mvneta_select_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *sb_dev,
+ select_queue_fallback_t fallback)
+{
+ /* XXX: hardware queue scheduling is broken,
+ * use only one queue until it is fixed */
+ return 0;
+}
+
static const struct net_device_ops mvneta_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_open = mvneta_open,
.ndo_stop = mvneta_stop,
@@ -4281,6 +4290,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mvnet
.ndo_fix_features = mvneta_fix_features,
.ndo_get_stats64 = mvneta_get_stats64,
.ndo_do_ioctl = mvneta_ioctl,
+ .ndo_select_queue = mvneta_select_queue,
};
static const struct ethtool_ops mvneta_eth_tool_ops = {