From ab9b30cc3ec868fab8764d710193107fbeedbd0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sathya Narayanan Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:58:05 +0200 Subject: ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing the valid descriptors on clean ring operation. Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index 5d2108c5ac7..ca63fa000ee 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -2719,6 +2719,8 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev, /* Clean rings */ memset(dev->tx_desc, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor)); memset(dev->rx_desc, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor)); + memset(dev->tx_skb, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *)); + memset(dev->rx_skb, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *)); /* Attach to ZMII, if needed */ if (emac_has_feature(dev, EMAC_FTR_HAS_ZMII) && -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6c688f4294dec3f2228fd46be67604508177a1c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sathya Narayanan Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:58:19 +0200 Subject: ibm_newemac: Fixes entry of short packets Short packets has to be discarded by the driver. So this patch addresses the issue of discarding the short packets of size lesser then ethernet header size. Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index ca63fa000ee..babc79ad490 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -1636,6 +1636,12 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget) goto next; } + if (len < ETH_HLEN) { + ++dev->estats.rx_dropped_stack; + emac_recycle_rx_skb(dev, slot, len); + goto next; + } + if (len && len < EMAC_RX_COPY_THRESH) { struct sk_buff *copy_skb = alloc_skb(len + EMAC_RX_SKB_HEADROOM + 2, GFP_ATOMIC); -- cgit v1.2.3