netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet parser lockup

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Message-Id: <20090321.190942.86384309.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sfc: Pad packets to 33 bytes to prevent TX packet
 parser lockup

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:39 +0000

> The packet parser used in the TX data path for locating checksum
> fields can lose synchronisation with the TX queue manager when
> handling packets that look like IPv4 but are too short (17-32 bytes).
> Work around this by padding to 33 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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