net/ncsi : Add payload to be 32-bit aligned to fix dropped packets
authorKumar Thangavel <kumarthangavel.hcl@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:38:18 +0000 (22:08 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:19:06 +0000 (09:19 +0100)
commit440bd9faad298c3cb31dcc6713070dc718769d47
tree58298f0c8c1c1a999088badc0813daef758ca9c8
parentac88cb3c44b6cf2fa29cd76c09cf8717e7056685
net/ncsi : Add payload to be 32-bit aligned to fix dropped packets

[ Upstream commit ac132852147ad303a938dda318970dd1bbdfda4e ]

Update NC-SI command handler (both standard and OEM) to take into
account of payload paddings in allocating skb (in case of payload
size is not 32-bit aligned).

The checksum field follows payload field, without taking payload
padding into account can cause checksum being truncated, leading to
dropped packets.

Fixes: fb4ee67529ff ("net/ncsi: Add NCSI OEM command support")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Thangavel <thangavel.k@hcl.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c