netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Fix ixgbe_tx

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Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:17:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Fix ixgbe_tx_map error path

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:12:51 -0800

> From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
> 
> Commit e5a43549f7a58509a91b299a51337d386697b92c (ixgbe: remove
> skb_dma_map/unmap calls from driver) looks to have introduced a bug in
> ixgbe_tx_map. If we get an error from a PCI DMA call, we loop backwards
> through count until it becomes -1 and return that.
> 
> The caller of ixgbe_tx_map expects 0 on error, so return that instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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