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authorJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>2009-09-25 12:19:02 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-26 20:15:47 -0700
commit3d6114e71dffb9fb9dedc8569103310c5bbf0296 (patch)
tree7fc265f766ef35cb6330e73680d83e6140fae30f /drivers/net
parent8fce47317fc96b222ea7e28fb6d153b1855e91cd (diff)
e1000: remove races when changing mtu
this patch fixes a bug that occurs when routing packets and simultaneously changing the mtu. the rx_buffer_len variable is used during the rx cleanup and if that changes on the fly without stopping traffic bad things happen Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index cdbf4fb8150..2178e0d39c0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -3141,6 +3141,13 @@ static int e1000_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
break;
}
+ while (test_and_set_bit(__E1000_RESETTING, &adapter->flags))
+ msleep(1);
+ /* e1000_down has a dependency on max_frame_size */
+ hw->max_frame_size = max_frame;
+ if (netif_running(netdev))
+ e1000_down(adapter);
+
/* NOTE: netdev_alloc_skb reserves 16 bytes, and typically NET_IP_ALIGN
* means we reserve 2 more, this pushes us to allocate from the next
* larger slab size.
@@ -3169,11 +3176,16 @@ static int e1000_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
(max_frame == MAXIMUM_ETHERNET_VLAN_SIZE)))
adapter->rx_buffer_len = MAXIMUM_ETHERNET_VLAN_SIZE;
+ printk(KERN_INFO "e1000: %s changing MTU from %d to %d\n",
+ netdev->name, netdev->mtu, new_mtu);
netdev->mtu = new_mtu;
- hw->max_frame_size = max_frame;
if (netif_running(netdev))
- e1000_reinit_locked(adapter);
+ e1000_up(adapter);
+ else
+ e1000_reset(adapter);
+
+ clear_bit(__E1000_RESETTING, &adapter->flags);
return 0;
}