netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] qlge: bugfix: Add missing rx buf clean index on early exit.

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Message-Id: <20090212.163922.22406530.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:39:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ron.mercer@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-driver@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] qlge: bugfix: Add missing rx buf clean index on
 early exit.

From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:58:37 -0800

> The large receive buffer queue is not properly tracking the current
> index in the case where an early exit occurs.  This can happen when a
> page alloc or dma mapping fails.  If this occurs the queue will get
> out of sync and invalid indexes can be written to the hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@...gic.com>

Applied.
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