Re: [tipc-discussion] [PATCH net-next] net: tipc: fix FB_MTU eat two pages

[Jon M. <jm...@re...>]

On 6/7/21 8:51 AM, Menglong Dong wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 10:25:53AM -0400, Jon Maloy wrote:
>>
>> On 6/4/21 9:28 PM, Menglong Dong wrote:
>>> Hello Maloy,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 3:20 AM Jon Maloy <jm...@re...> wrote:

>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> So if I use the non-crypto version, the size allocated will be:
>>>
>>>    PAGE_SIZE - BUF_HEADROOM_non-crypto - BUF_TAILROOM_non-crypt +
>>>      BUF_HEADROOM_crypto + BUF_TAILROOM_crypto
>>>
>>> which is larger than PAGE_SIZE.
>>>
>>> So, I think the simple way is to define FB_MTU in 'crypto.h'. Is this
>>> acceptable?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Menglong Dong
>>>

I spent a little more time looking into this. I think the best we can do 
is to keep FB_MTU internal to msg.c, and then add an outline function to 
msg.c that can be used by bcast.c. The way it is used is never time 
critical.

I also see that we could need a little cleanup around this. There is a 
redundant align() function that should be removed and replaced with the 
global ALIGN() macro.
Even tipc_buf_acquire() should use this macro instead of the explicit 
method that is used now.
In general, I stongly dislike conditional code, and it is not necessary 
in this function. If we redefine the non-crypto BUF_TAILROOM to 0 
instead of 16 (it is not used anywhere else) we could get rid of this too.

But I leave that to you. If you only fix the FB_MTU macro I am content.

///jon