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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:13:03 -0700 From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> To: davem@...emloft.net Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>, stable@...nel.org, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Subject: [net] ixgbe: fix possible null buffer error From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> It seems that at least one PPC machine would occasionally give a (valid) 0 as the return value from dma_map, this caused the ixgbe code to not work correctly. A fix is pending in the PPC tree to not return 0 from dma map, but we can also fix the driver to make sure we don't mess up in other arches as well. This patch is applicable to all current stable kernels. Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683611 Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> CC: stable@...nel.org Tested-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@...el.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> --- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index 2279039..e1fcc95 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -1321,8 +1321,8 @@ static void ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector, if (ring_is_rsc_enabled(rx_ring)) pkt_is_rsc = ixgbe_get_rsc_state(rx_desc); - /* if this is a skb from previous receive DMA will be 0 */ - if (rx_buffer_info->dma) { + /* linear means we are building an skb from multiple pages */ + if (!skb_is_nonlinear(skb)) { u16 hlen; if (pkt_is_rsc && !(staterr & IXGBE_RXD_STAT_EOP) && -- 1.7.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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