linux-hardened/drivers/net
Feng Tang 881d0327db net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue
Commit 26c5f03 uses a new skb allocator to avoid the RFD overflow
issue.

But from debugging without datasheet, we found the error always
happen when the DMA RX address is set to 0x....fc0, which is very
likely to be a HW/silicon problem.

So one idea is instead of adding a new allocator, why not just
hitting the right target by avaiding the error-prone DMA address?

This patch will actually
* Remove the commit 26c5f03
* Apply rx skb with 64 bytes longer space, and if the allocated skb
  has a 0x...fc0 address, it will use skb_resever(skb, 64) to
  advance the address, so that the RX overflow can be avoided.

In theory this method should also apply to atl1c driver, which
I can't find anyone who can help to test on real devices.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Ole Lukoie <olelukoie@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-14 15:30:50 -04:00
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appletalk treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper 2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
arcnet arcnet: com90xx: add __init attribute 2016-04-19 20:17:45 -04:00
bonding
caif
can can: ifi: Add more detailed error reporting 2016-05-09 11:07:28 +02:00
cris treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper 2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
dsa net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove bridge work 2016-05-16 13:46:24 -04:00
ethernet net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue 2016-06-14 15:30:50 -04:00
fddi
fjes fjes: Fix unnecessary spinlock_irqsave 2016-05-09 22:05:51 -04:00
hamradio Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2016-05-17 16:26:30 -07:00
hippi
hyperv hv_netvsc: set nvdev link after populating chn_table 2016-05-16 13:26:01 -04:00
ieee802154 net: ieee802154/adf7242: syntax error ifdef DEBUG 2016-05-19 11:30:56 -07:00
ipvlan ipvlan: Fix failure path in dev registration during link creation 2016-04-28 17:23:08 -04:00
irda net: irda: avoid null pointer dereference 2016-05-19 11:30:57 -07:00
phy phy: marvell: fix LED configuration via marvell,reg-init 2016-06-14 15:23:03 -04:00
plip
ppp ppp: add rtnetlink device creation support 2016-04-29 16:09:44 -04:00
slip treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper 2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
team team: don't call netdev_change_features under team->lock 2016-05-25 12:58:04 -07:00
usb usbnet: smsc95xx: fix link detection for disabled autonegotiation 2016-05-31 14:22:23 -07:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: segCnt can be 1 for LRO packets 2016-06-10 00:15:11 -07:00
wan treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper 2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
wimax treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper 2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
wireless wireless-drivers fixes for 4.7 2016-06-04 22:14:53 -04:00
xen-netback xen-netback: only deinitialized hash if it was initialized 2016-05-20 17:41:18 -04:00
dummy.c
eql.c
geneve.c udp: prevent skbs lingering in tunnel socket queues 2016-05-20 19:56:02 -04:00
gtp.c gtp: put back reference to netns when not required anymore 2016-05-12 12:27:15 -04:00
ifb.c ifb: support more features 2016-05-09 00:00:28 -04:00
Kconfig gtp: add initial driver for datapath of GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U) 2016-05-10 12:25:04 -04:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macsec.c macsec: fix netlink attribute for key id 2016-05-20 11:14:13 -07:00
macvlan.c macvlan: fix failure during registration v3 2016-04-26 15:17:18 -04:00
macvtap.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-05-09 15:59:24 -04:00
Makefile gtp: add initial driver for datapath of GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP-U) 2016-05-10 12:25:04 -04:00
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c
rionet.c drivers: net: remove NETDEV_TX_LOCKED 2016-04-26 15:53:05 -04:00
sb1000.c
Space.c net: Fix coding style warnings and errors. 2016-05-19 11:48:27 -07:00
sungem_phy.c
tun.c tuntap: correctly wake up process during uninit 2016-05-20 19:28:37 -04:00
veth.c veth: Update features to include all tunnel GSO types 2016-04-21 14:14:59 -04:00
virtio_net.c virtio_net: fix virtnet_open and virtnet_probe competing for try_fill_recv 2016-05-31 14:21:09 -07:00
vrf.c net: vrf: protect changes to private data with rcu 2016-05-16 13:46:24 -04:00
vxlan.c vxlan: Accept user specified MTU value when create new vxlan link 2016-05-31 11:46:00 -07:00
xen-netfront.c