netdev - Re: [PATCH net] r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125

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Message-ID: <5e2c4d3b-4637-4418-9139-ad8f93061e55@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 07:36:10 +0200
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: add tally counter fields added with RTL8125

On 08.10.2024 02:47, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 20:42:23 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> RTL8125 added fields to the tally counter, what may result in the chip
>> dma'ing these new fields to unallocated memory. Therefore make sure
>> that the allocated memory area is big enough to hold all of the
>> tally counter values, even if we use only parts of it.
> 
> doesn't seem to apply

This version of the patch is meant to be applied to stable kernels up to 6.11.
I think I should have sent it to stable@...r.kernel.org directly.