strange issues with simple net module for 2.4

strange issues with simple net module for 2.4

[gj]

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hi devs

I have spend some time, and wrote very simple NET device module for 2.4
kernels. It does allocate certain number of paired net interfaces named
tola%d , where for instance:
tola(N*2)<->tola(N*2)+1

anything you send to tola0, appears on tola1, and the other way around,
same for all Ns.

http://podgorze.pl/~gj/tola.tar.bz2
(~2kb)

there are few issues however.
First of all, I am not able to allocate more than 50 pairs (the param is
at the top of the source - int nrofi; ). Secondly, every once in a while
it crashes badly on unload, and frankly - I have no idea why.

Once again, this is 2.4.X module! The reason being, we are using here only
2.4 series for networking for various reasons that I don't want to get
into now.
I do appriciate any help or hints regarding this module please.

Re: strange issues with simple net module for 2.4

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:52:03 +0200 (CEST)
gj@pointblue.com.pl wrote:

> /* Please do CC me on replies, I am not subscribed to the list. */
> 
> hi devs
> 
> I have spend some time, and wrote very simple NET device module for 2.4
> kernels. It does allocate certain number of paired net interfaces named
> tola%d , where for instance:
> tola(N*2)<->tola(N*2)+1
> 
> anything you send to tola0, appears on tola1, and the other way around,
> same for all Ns.
> 
> http://podgorze.pl/~gj/tola.tar.bz2
> (~2kb)
> 
> there are few issues however.
> First of all, I am not able to allocate more than 50 pairs (the param is
> at the top of the source - int nrofi; ). Secondly, every once in a while
> it crashes badly on unload, and frankly - I have no idea why.

Since you want a specific device name, ask for it rather than letting
register_netdev assign it. The code to do automagic device names (like eth%d)
is very slow and limited in 2.4. 

So change:
	strcpy(tola_dev[i]->name, "tola%d");

To:
	snprintf(tola_dev[i]->name, "tola%d", i);
	
And rather than putting ascii values in the ethernet address, put
a valid software random address.
Replace this bad code:
	snprintf( mak+1, ETH_ALEN-1, "%dtola", i );
	mak[0] = '\0';
	memcpy(tola_dev[i]->dev_addr, mak, ETH_ALEN );

with:
	get_random_bytes(tola_dev[i]->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
	dev->dev_addr[0] &= 0xfe;
	dev->dev_addr[0] |= 0x02;

This is code from random_ether_adddr() in 2.6.

Don't lose the error return from register_netdev and leak memory:

Not:
	r = register_netdev (tola_dev[i]);
	if ( r ) {
	    return -ENOMEM;
	}

Use:
	r = register_netdev(tola_dev[i]);
	if (r) {
		int j;
		free_netdev(tola_dev[i]);
		for (j = 0; j < i; j++) {
			unregister_netdev(tola_dev[j]);
			free_netdev(tola_dev[j]);
		}
		return r;
	}

You don't need tola_open, tola_close stubs, since the core network
code does the right thing if the pointers are NULL.

Lastly, you need to free the netdevice in the cleanup code.


> Once again, this is 2.4.X module! The reason being, we are using here only
> 2.4 series for networking for various reasons that I don't want to get
> into now.
> I do appriciate any help or hints regarding this module please.
> 
> 
> 
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