From 1f247a6f9e5d1b5a1e57d66829ee52dbafac256f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:51:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 098/115] ibmvnic: Pad small packets to minimum MTU size

References: bsc#1085239
Patch-mainline: v4.17-rc1
Git-commit: 1f247a6f9e5d1b5a1e57d66829ee52dbafac256f

Some backing devices cannot handle small packets well,
so pad any small packets to avoid that. It was recommended
that the VNIC driver should not send packets smaller than the
minimum MTU value provided by firmware, so pad small packets
to be at least that long.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 14f00810db33..7ed87fbb156b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1340,6 +1340,19 @@ static void build_hdr_descs_arr(struct ibmvnic_tx_buff *txbuff,
 			 txbuff->indir_arr + 1);
 }
 
+static int ibmvnic_xmit_workarounds(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				    struct net_device *netdev)
+{
+	/* For some backing devices, mishandling of small packets
+	 * can result in a loss of connection or TX stall. Device
+	 * architects recommend that no packet should be smaller
+	 * than the minimum MTU value provided to the driver, so
+	 * pad any packets to that length
+	 */
+	if (skb->len < netdev->min_mtu)
+		return skb_put_padto(skb, netdev->min_mtu);
+}
+
 static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
@@ -1377,6 +1390,13 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (ibmvnic_xmit_workarounds(skb, adapter)) {
+		tx_dropped++;
+		tx_send_failed++;
+		ret = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	tx_pool = &adapter->tx_pool[queue_num];
 	tx_scrq = adapter->tx_scrq[queue_num];
 	txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(netdev, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
-- 
2.13.6