netdev - Re: [PATCH] asix: fix infinite loop in rx

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Date:	Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:15:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aurel@...age.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asix: fix infinite loop in rx_fixup()

From: Aurelien Jacobs <aurel@...age.org>
Date: Sat,  7 Jan 2012 19:09:27 +0100

> At this point if skb->len happens to be 2, the subsequant skb_pull(skb, 4)
> call won't work and the skb->len won't be decreased and won't ever reach 0,
> resulting in an infinite loop.
> 
> With an ASIX 88772 under heavy load, without this patch, rx_fixup() reaches
> an infinite loop in less than a minute. With this patch applied,
> no infinite loop even after hours of heavy load.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jacobs <aurel@...age.org>

Applied, thanks.
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