linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 08/11] fec: fix uninitialized rx buffer usage

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:46:24 -0700
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...onical.com>
Cc:	List Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <r.herring@...escale.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	s.hauer@...gutronix.de, valentin.longchamp@...l.ch,
	daniel@...aq.de, Dinh.Nguyen@...escale.com, bryan.wu@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 08/11] fec: fix uninitialized rx buffer usage

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Amit Kucheria
<amit.kucheria@...onical.com> wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <r.herring@...escale.com>
>
> The fec driver was enabling receive buffer descriptor without allocating
> the buffers. Make sure the buffer descriptors are initialized to not
> start receiving packets.
>
> Open also calls fec_restart after the rx buffers are allocated. With the code
> in fec_restart, it zeroes out the buffer descriptors that have just been
> setup.

fec related patches 8 & 9 look okay to me.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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