netdev - Re: Bug in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec

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Message-ID: <CAOMZO5BnPQTFoBRr4EGH24_yZZAY6NJmVFg4WeiJcTqrYqki5A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:35:30 -0300
From:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Панов Андрей <rockford@...dex.ru>,
	"fugang.duan@...escale.com" <fugang.duan@...escale.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c, TX is broken.
 In 4.0.0-rc3

Hi Russell,

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Given that this bug can seriously screw data up in undetectable ways (TCP
> checksums don't save you, because the FEC generates them on the data which
> it read from memory, even if it happened to read the data from the SoC's
> boot ROM) we do need to get this fixed ASAP.

Current mainline has 2b995f63987013 reverted, so 4.0-rc5 will not have
this corruption problem.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam
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