netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Align RX buffers

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Date:   Sun, 30 Apr 2017 22:50:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     swood@...hat.com
Cc:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com, ariel.elior@...ium.com,
        everest-linux-l2@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, mschmidt@...hat.com,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Align RX buffers

From: Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:17:41 -0500

> The bnx2x driver is not providing proper alignment on the receive buffers it
> passes to build_skb(), causing skb_shared_info to be misaligned.
> skb_shared_info contains an atomic, and while PPC normally supports
> unaligned accesses, it does not support unaligned atomics.
> 
> Aligning the size of rx buffers will ensure that page_frag_alloc() returns
> aligned addresses.
> 
> This can be reproduced on PPC by setting the network MTU to 1450 (or other
> non-multiple-of-4) and then generating sufficient inbound network traffic
> (one or two large "wget"s usually does it), producing the following oops:
 ...
> Fixes: d46d132cc021 ("bnx2x: use netdev_alloc_frag()")
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.