[dhcp] Use Ethernet-compatible chaddr, if possible

For IPoIB, we currently use the hardware address (i.e. the eight-byte GUID) as the DHCP chaddr. This works, but some PXE servers (notably Altiris RDP) refuse to respond if the chaddr field is anything other than six bytes in length. We already have the notion of an Ethernet-compatible link-layer address, which is used in the iBFT (the design of which similarly fails to account for non-Ethernet link layers). Use this as the first preferred alternative to the actual link-layer address when constructing the DHCP chaddr field. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
ipxe · Dec 15, 2010 · 708c506 · 708c506
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diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h b/src/include/ipxe/dhcp.h
@@ -620,8 +620,8 @@ struct dhcphdr {
 /** Setting block name used for BootServerDHCP responses */
 #define PXEBS_SETTINGS_NAME "pxebs"
 
-extern void * dhcp_chaddr ( struct net_device *netdev, uint8_t *hlen,
-			    uint16_t *flags );
+extern unsigned int dhcp_chaddr ( struct net_device *netdev, void *chaddr,
+				  uint16_t *flags );
 extern int dhcp_create_packet ( struct dhcp_packet *dhcppkt,
 				struct net_device *netdev, uint8_t msgtype,
 				const void *options, size_t options_len,

diff --git a/src/net/udp/dhcp.c b/src/net/udp/dhcp.c
@@ -867,20 +867,24 @@ static struct dhcp_session_state dhcp_state_pxebs = {
  * Construct DHCP client hardware address field and broadcast flag
  *
  * @v netdev		Network device
- * @v hlen		DHCP hardware address length to fill in
- * @v flags		DHCP flags to fill in
- * @ret chaddr		DHCP client hardware address
+ * @v chaddr		Hardware address buffer
+ * @v flags		Flags to set (or NULL)
+ * @ret hlen		Hardware address length
  */
-void * dhcp_chaddr ( struct net_device *netdev, uint8_t *hlen,
-		     uint16_t *flags ) {
+unsigned int dhcp_chaddr ( struct net_device *netdev, void *chaddr,
+			   uint16_t *flags ) {
 	struct ll_protocol *ll_protocol = netdev->ll_protocol;
-	typeof ( ( ( struct dhcphdr * ) NULL )->chaddr ) chaddr;
+	struct dhcphdr *dhcphdr;
+	int rc;
 
 	/* If the link-layer address cannot fit into the chaddr field
-	 * (as is the case for IPoIB) then try using the hardware
-	 * address instead.  If we do this, set the broadcast flag,
-	 * since chaddr then does not represent a valid link-layer
-	 * address for the return path.
+	 * (as is the case for IPoIB) then try using the Ethernet-
+	 * compatible link-layer address.  If we do this, set the
+	 * broadcast flag, since chaddr then does not represent a
+	 * valid link-layer address for the return path.
+	 *
+	 * If we cannot produce an Ethernet-compatible link-layer
+	 * address, try using the hardware address.
 	 *
 	 * If even the hardware address is too large, use an empty
 	 * chaddr field and set the broadcast flag.
@@ -891,16 +895,19 @@ void * dhcp_chaddr ( struct net_device *netdev, uint8_t *hlen,
 	 * storage, or by eliminating the hardware address completely
 	 * from the DHCP packet, which seems unfriendly to users.
 	 */
-	if ( ( *hlen = ll_protocol->ll_addr_len ) <= sizeof ( chaddr ) ) {
-		return netdev->ll_addr;
+	if ( ll_protocol->ll_addr_len <= sizeof ( dhcphdr->chaddr ) ) {
+		memcpy ( chaddr, netdev->ll_addr, ll_protocol->ll_addr_len );
+		return ll_protocol->ll_addr_len;
 	}
-	*flags = htons ( BOOTP_FL_BROADCAST );
-	if ( ( *hlen = ll_protocol->hw_addr_len ) <= sizeof ( chaddr ) ) {
-		return netdev->hw_addr;
-	} else {
-		*hlen = 0;
-		return NULL;
+	if ( flags )
+		*flags |= htons ( BOOTP_FL_BROADCAST );
+	if ( ( rc = ll_protocol->eth_addr ( netdev->ll_addr, chaddr ) ) == 0 )
+		return ETH_ALEN;
+	if ( ll_protocol->hw_addr_len <= sizeof ( dhcphdr->chaddr ) ) {
+		memcpy ( chaddr, netdev->hw_addr, ll_protocol->hw_addr_len );
+		return ll_protocol->hw_addr_len;
 	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -923,7 +930,6 @@ int dhcp_create_packet ( struct dhcp_packet *dhcppkt,
 			 const void *options, size_t options_len,
 			 void *data, size_t max_len ) {
 	struct dhcphdr *dhcphdr = data;
-	void *chaddr;
 	int rc;
 
 	/* Sanity check */
@@ -936,8 +942,8 @@ int dhcp_create_packet ( struct dhcp_packet *dhcppkt,
 	dhcphdr->magic = htonl ( DHCP_MAGIC_COOKIE );
 	dhcphdr->htype = ntohs ( netdev->ll_protocol->ll_proto );
 	dhcphdr->op = dhcp_op[msgtype];
-	chaddr = dhcp_chaddr ( netdev, &dhcphdr->hlen, &dhcphdr->flags );
-	memcpy ( dhcphdr->chaddr, chaddr, dhcphdr->hlen );
+	dhcphdr->hlen = dhcp_chaddr ( netdev, dhcphdr->chaddr,
+				      &dhcphdr->flags );
 	memcpy ( dhcphdr->options, options, options_len );
 
 	/* Initialise DHCP packet structure */

diff --git a/src/usr/dhcpmgmt.c b/src/usr/dhcpmgmt.c
@@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );
  */
 
 int dhcp ( struct net_device *netdev ) {
-	uint8_t *chaddr;
-	uint8_t hlen;
-	uint16_t flags;
+	struct dhcphdr *dhcphdr;
+	typeof ( dhcphdr->chaddr ) chaddr;
+	unsigned int hlen;
+	unsigned int i;
 	int rc;
 
 	/* Check we can open the interface first */
@@ -51,10 +52,11 @@ int dhcp ( struct net_device *netdev ) {
 		return rc;
 
 	/* Perform DHCP */
-	chaddr = dhcp_chaddr ( netdev, &hlen, &flags );
-	printf ( "DHCP (%s ", netdev->name );
-	while ( hlen-- )
-		printf ( "%02x%c", *(chaddr++), ( hlen ? ':' : ')' ) );
+	printf ( "DHCP (%s", netdev->name );
+	hlen = dhcp_chaddr ( netdev, chaddr, NULL );
+	for ( i = 0 ; i < hlen ; i++ )
+		printf ( "%c%02x", ( i ? ':' : ' ' ), chaddr[i] );
+	printf ( ")" );
 
 	if ( ( rc = start_dhcp ( &monojob, netdev ) ) == 0 ) {
 		rc = monojob_wait ( "" );