[PATCH v10 00/25] Introduce the lwIP network stack

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/6/24 19:54, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 02:33:16PM +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:
> > 
> >> This is a rework of a patch series by Maxim Uvarov: "net/lwip: add lwip
> >> library for the network stack" [1]. The goal is to introduce the lwIP TCP/IP
> >> stack [2] [3] as an alternative to the current implementation in net/,
> >> selectable with Kconfig, and ultimately keep only lwIP if possible. Some
> >> reasons for doing so are:
> >> - Make the support of HTTPS in the wget command easier. Javier T. and
> >> Raymond M. (CC'd) have some additional lwIP and Mbed TLS patches to do
> >> so. With that it becomes possible to fetch and launch a distro installer
> >> such as Debian etc. using a secure, authenticated connection directly
> >> from the U-Boot shell. Several use cases:
> >>   * Authentication: prevent MITM attack (third party replacing the
> >> binary with a different one)
> >>   * Confidentiality: prevent third parties from grabbing a copy of the
> >> image as it is being downloaded
> >>   * Allow connection to servers that do not support plain HTTP anymore
> >> (this is becoming more and more common on the Internet these days)
> >> - Possibly benefit from additional features implemented in lwIP
> >> - Less code to maintain in U-Boot
> > 
> > On am64x-sk (am64x_evm_a53_defconfig) I'm seeing:
> > => tftpboot 80200000 EFI/arm64/grubaa64.efi
> > Using ethernet at 8000000port@1 device
> > TFTP from server 192.168.116.10; our IP address is 192.168.116.23
> > Filename 'EFI/arm64/grubaa64.efi'.
> > Load address: 0x80200000
> > Loading:
> > ... silent hang ...
> > 
> > Which I didn't see with v9. I can test other TI K3 platforms if it would
> > help.
> 
> Weird. I compared v9 and v10 (rebased onto the same commit as v9) but
> I saw nothing obvious. Would you mind running the test again with these
> traces added?
> 
> diff --git a/net/lwip/net-lwip.c b/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
> index 1948fc1c309..9bbfd8ee5a7 100644
> --- a/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
> +++ b/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static err_t linkoutput(struct netif *netif, struct pbuf *p)
>  	void *pp = NULL;
>  	int err;
>  
> +	printf("[OUT|%d]", p->len);
>  	if ((unsigned long)p->payload % PKTALIGN) {
>  		/*
>  		 * Some net drivers have strict alignment requirements and may
> @@ -252,12 +253,16 @@ int net_lwip_rx(struct udevice *udev, struct netif *netif)
>  	int len;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	if (!eth_is_active(udev))
> +	printf("[IN]");
> +	if (!eth_is_active(udev)) {
> +		printf("ERR: !eth_is_active()\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
>  
>  	flags = ETH_RECV_CHECK_DEVICE;
>  	for (i = 0; i < ETH_PACKETS_BATCH_RECV; i++) {
>  		len = eth_get_ops(udev)->recv(udev, flags, &packet);
> +		printf("[IN|%d]", len);
>  		flags = 0;
>  
>  		if (len > 0) {

I have the log, if it helps. However, with debug prints added, now it
completes. And I can see (as part of trimming down my test setup) that
without the prints, some tests are OK. The much smaller "helloworld.efi"
file and test is fine.

-- 
Tom
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