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Work around dhclient brokenness

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With the latest GSO/csum offload patches, any guest using an unpatched version
of dhclient (any Ubuntu guest, for instance), will no longer be able to get
a DHCP address.

dhclient is actually at fault here.  It uses AF_PACKET to receive DHCP responses
but does not check auxdata to see if the packet has a valid csum.  This causes
it to throw out the DHCP responses it gets from the virtio interface as there
is not a valid checksum.

Fedora has carried a patch to fix their dhclient (it's needed for Xen too) but
this patch has not made it into a release of dhclient.  AFAIK, the patch is in
the dhclient CVS but I cannot confirm since their CVS is not public.

This patch, suggested by Rusty, looks for UDP packets (of a normal MTU) and
explicitly adds a checksum to them if they are missing one.

This allows unpatched dhclients to continue to work without needing to update
the guest kernels.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Anthony Liguori 2009-10-22 17:43:48 +01:00
parent f5436dd96a
commit 1d41b0c1ec
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hw/virtio-net.c
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@ -372,6 +372,34 @@ static int virtio_net_can_receive(VLANClientState *vc)
return do_virtio_net_can_receive(n, VIRTIO_NET_MAX_BUFSIZE);
}
/* dhclient uses AF_PACKET but doesn't pass auxdata to the kernel so
* it never finds out that the packets don't have valid checksums. This
* causes dhclient to get upset. Fedora's carried a patch for ages to
* fix this with Xen but it hasn't appeared in an upstream release of
* dhclient yet.
*
* To avoid breaking existing guests, we catch udp packets and add
* checksums. This is terrible but it's better than hacking the guest
* kernels.
*
* N.B. if we introduce a zero-copy API, this operation is no longer free so
* we should provide a mechanism to disable it to avoid polluting the host
* cache.
*/
static void work_around_broken_dhclient(struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
const uint8_t *buf, size_t size)
{
if ((hdr->flags & VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM) && /* missing csum */
(size > 27 && size < 1500) && /* normal sized MTU */
(buf[12] == 0x08 && buf[13] == 0x00) && /* ethertype == IPv4 */
(buf[23] == 17) && /* ip.protocol == UDP */
(buf[34] == 0 && buf[35] == 67)) { /* udp.srcport == bootps */
/* FIXME this cast is evil */
net_checksum_calculate((uint8_t *)buf, size);
hdr->flags &= ~VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_NEEDS_CSUM;
}
}
static int iov_fill(struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, const void *buf, int count)
{
int offset, i;
@ -399,6 +427,7 @@ static int receive_header(VirtIONet *n, struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt,
if (n->has_vnet_hdr) {
memcpy(hdr, buf, sizeof(*hdr));
offset = sizeof(*hdr);
work_around_broken_dhclient(hdr, buf + offset, size - offset);
}
/* We only ever receive a struct virtio_net_hdr from the tapfd,