Hi Jerome
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM Jerome Forissier
<jerome.foriss...@linaro.org> 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
>
> Prior to applying this series, the lwIP stack needs to be added as a
> Git subtree with the following command:
>
> $ git subtree add --squash --prefix lib/lwip/lwip
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/lwip.git STABLE-2_2_0_RELEASE
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. A number of features are currently incompatible with NET_LWIP: SANDBOX,
> DFU_TFTP, FASTBOOT, SPL_NET. All make assumptions on how the network
> stack is implemented and/or pull sybols that are not trivially exported
> from lwIP. Some interface rework may be needed.
>
> 2. Due to the above and in order to provide some level of testing, a new QEMU
> configuration is introduced (qemu_arm64_lwip_defconfig) which is the same
> as qemu_arm64_defconfig but with NET_LWIP and CMD_*_LWIP enabled.
> Tests are added to test/py/tests/test_net.py for that configuration.
>
> 3. The default QEMU networking doesn't work with NET_LWIP. wget
> pauses and resets the connection. Wireshark shows [TCP Window Full] and
> [TCP ZeroWindow]. Wen using an emulated e1000 however all is fine
> (that is "-nic tap,model=e1000" on the QEMU command line, with a bridge
> configured on the host).
>
> Changes in v5:
>
> - Rebased on next
> - Refactor Kconfig options to avoid duplicates
> - Library functions use a more consistent naming (dhcp_loop(),
> ping_loop() etc.) and take a struct udevice * parameter (Heinrich S.)
> - Do not use net_process_receive_packet() for input anymore. Instead of
> calling eth_rx() which would invoke net_process_receive_packet(), we
> call a new net_lwip_rx(udev) function which invokes the device recv()
> and pushes the packets up the lwIP stack. Thus everything is tied to
> a udevice now. (Heinrich S.)
> - Add "configs: replace '# CONFIG_NET is not set' with CONFIG_NO_NET=y"
> (Tom R.)
Here I have some questions. You can have CONFIG_NET with two alternatives and
the alternatives are exclusive. Why do we need a CONFIG_NO_NET definition?
Michael
> - tftp: unify display with legacy command: add throughput, 65 hashes per
> line, one every 10 blocks received (Tom R.)
> - Moved net-lwip/* to net/lwip/* (Simon G.)
> - Rename static function low_level_output() to linkoutput() since it is
> the name used in the lwIP netif struct.
> - Fixed off-by-one in parse_url() which could cause wget to fail when
> passed a URL with a host name (as opposed to a URL with an IP address).
> - Improved TFTP performance by adding support for the blksize option
> (patches "lwip: tftp: add support of blksize option to client" and
> "net-lwip: add TFTP_BLOCKSIZE) (Tom R.)
> - Add an optional port number to the tftp command for easier testing
> (syntax: tftp [[ip:[port:]]filename])
> - wget: display an "unsupported URI" error if uri is not http://
> (Jon H.)
> - Adjusted the lwIP TCP options in lib/lwip/u-boot/lwipopts.h for
> better performance, in particular TCP_WND.
> - Add "net: fec_mxc_init(): do not ignore return status of fec_open()"
> - Set the proper environment variables when DHCP succeeds (ipaddr%d
> etc.) and read the proper ones for the given device in new_netif(),
> allowing correct behavior when several adapters are available (tested
> on i.MX8M Plus).
> - Fix an alignment issue with outgoing packets (see the linkoutput()
> function). With that the i.MX8M Plus ENET1 interface works properly.
> (reported by Tim H.).
> - Add review tags
>
> Changes in v4:
>
> - Fixed the DHCP algorithm which was missing a sys_timeout() call in
> the "fine timer" callback. This should close the issue that Tom R.
> reported with his Raspberry Pi 3 (it does fix it on mine).
> - The DHCP exchange timeout is increased from 2 to 10 seconds
> - The DHCP exchange can be interrupted with Ctrl-C.
> - "net: introduce alternative implementation as net-lwip/": rework
> dependencies. A few symbols have 'depends on !NET_LWIP' and in addition
> 'NET_LWIP depends on !SANDBOX'. Sandbox, DSA and fastboot are
> unsupported, because they are deeply welded to the current stack.
> - All network commands (dns, ping, tftp and wget):
> * Get rid of global variables (Ilias A.)
> * Use printf() rather than log_info()
> - "net-lwip: add ping command": use packet count instead of
> timeout, fix code style (Ilias A.)
> - Add "net: split cmd/net.c into cmd/net.c and cmd/net-common.c"
> extracted from the wget patch (Ilias A.).
> - Add "net: split include/net.h into net{,-common,-legacy,-lwip}.h"
> (Ilias A.)
> - Add "flash: prefix error codes with FL_" which is required to
> avoid name clashes when splitting net.h
> - Reworked the initialization of the lwIP stack. One and only
> one network interface (struct netif) is added for the duration
> of the command that uses that interface. That's commit "net-lwip:
> add DHCP support and dhcp commmand".
> - Drop "test: dm: dsa, eth: disable tests when CONFIG_NET_LWIP=y",
> not needed now that NET_LWIP depend on !SANDBOX.
> - qemu_arm64_lwip_defconfig now enables CMD_DNS and CMD_WGET (so
> that all the supported network commands are available).
>
> Changes in v3:
>
> - Make NET_LWIP a Kconfig choice in patch "net: introduce alternative
> implementation as net-lwip/" (Tom R.)
> - Drop the patch introducing lwIP as a Git subtree and document the git
> command in the cover letter instead (Tom R.)
> - "net-lwip: add TFTP support and tftpboot command": use the same
> "Bytes transferred =" message as in the legacy implementation (Tom R.,
> Maxim U.)
> - Drop "test/py: net: add _lwip variants of dhcp, ping and tftpboot
> tests" which is not needed anymore.
> - Add missing kfree() calls in cmd/net-common.c and fix the parsing of
> decimal address in net-lwip/wget.c (patch "net-lwip: add wget command")
> (Maxim U.)
> - "net-lwip: add ping command": drop the ICMP payload (Ilias A.). Set
> the sequence number to zero when entering ping_loop().
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> ** Address comments from Ilias A.
>
> - "net-lwip: add wget command"
> Implement the wget_with_dns() function to do most of the wget work and
> call it from do_wget(). This allows to simplify patch "net-lwip: add
> support for EFI_HTTP_BOOT".
>
> - "net-lwip: import net command from cmd/net.c"
> Move a few functions from cmd/net.c to a new file cmd/net-common.c
> rather than duplicating then in cmd/net-lwip.c.
>
> - "net-lwip: add support for EFI_HTTP_BOOT"
> Since wget_with_dns() is now implemented in "net-lwip: add wget command",
> just enable the wget command when the lwIP stack is enabled and
> EFI_HTTP_BOOT is requested.
>
> ** Address comments from Tom R.
>
> - "net-lwip: add DHCP support and dhcp commmand",
> "net-lwip: add TFTP support and tftpboot command",
> "net-lwip: add ping command",
> "net-lwip: add dns command",
> "net-lwip: add wget command"
> Do not introduce new CMD_XXX_LWIP symbols and use existing CMD_XXX
> instead.
>
> - "configs: add qemu_arm64_lwip_defconfig"
> Use #include <configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig>.
>
> - "net-lwip: import lwIP library under lib/lwip"
> Patch removed and replaced by the introduction of a Git subtree:
> "Squashed 'lib/lwip/lwip/' content from commit 0a0452b2c3".
>
> Note that I have not yet addressed your comments on "test: dm: dsa,
> eth: disable tests when CONFIG_NET_LWIP=y"). I need some more time
> for that and I think running CI on this v2 will help better understand
> what is needed for v3.
>
> ** Miscellaneous improvements
>
> - "net: introduce alternative implementation as net-lwip/":
>
> * Make DFU_OVER_TFTP not DFU_TFTP incompatible with NET_LWIP. It seems
> quite natural to supplement "depends on NET" with "&& !NET_LWIP".
> * Make PROT_*_LWIP not visible by removing the Kconfig prompt.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231127125726.3735-1-maxim.uva...@linaro.org/
> [2] https://www.nongnu.org/lwip/
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwIP
>
> CC: Javier Tia <javier....@linaro.org>
> CC: Raymond Mao <raymond....@linaro.org>
>
> Jerome Forissier (19):
> flash: prefix error codes with FL_
> net: introduce alternative implementation as net-lwip/
> configs: replace '# CONFIG_NET is not set' with CONFIG_NO_NET=y
> net: fec_mxc_init(): do not ignore return status of fec_open()
> net: split include/net.h into net{,-common,-legacy,-lwip}.h
> net: eth-uclass: add function eth_start_udev()
> net-lwip: build lwIP
> net-lwip: add DHCP support and dhcp commmand
> net-lwip: add TFTP support and tftpboot command
> net-lwip: add ping command
> net-lwip: add dns command
> net: split cmd/net.c into cmd/net.c and cmd/net-common.c
> net-lwip: add wget command
> cmd: bdinfo: enable -e when CONFIG_CMD_NET_LWIP=y
> configs: add qemu_arm64_lwip_defconfig
> lwip: tftp: add support of blksize option to client
> net-lwip: add TFTP_BLOCKSIZE
> CI: add qemu_arm64_lwip to the test matrix
> MAINTAINERS: net-lwip: add myself as a maintainer
>
> Jonathan Humphreys (1):
> net-lwip: lwIP wget supports user defined port in the uri, so allow
> it.
>
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> 157 files changed, 3311 insertions(+), 1321 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 cmd/net-common.c
> create mode 100644 cmd/net-lwip.c
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> create mode 100644 net/lwip/ping.c
> create mode 100644 net/lwip/tftp.c
> create mode 100644 net/lwip/wget.c
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>
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