On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 10:07 +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > The SMSC911x ethernet controller provides a mechanism for quickly > skipping to the start of the next frame in the receive FIFO, however > the current code passes the number of words to a function that expects > the number of bytes. This can corrupt the FIFO head in the case that > the fastforward mechanism is not used. > > This patch fixes the callers of smsc911x_rx_fastforward to pass the > correct data size. > > Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c > index 4a69710..b5599bc 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c > @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ static int smsc911x_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) > "Discarding packet with error bit set"); > /* Packet has an error, discard it and continue with > * the next */ > - smsc911x_rx_fastforward(pdata, pktwords); > + smsc911x_rx_fastforward(pdata, pktlength); > dev->stats.rx_dropped++; > continue; > } > @@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ static int smsc911x_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) > SMSC_WARN(pdata, rx_err, > "Unable to allocate skb for rx packet"); > /* Drop the packet and stop this polling iteration */ > - smsc911x_rx_fastforward(pdata, pktwords); > + smsc911x_rx_fastforward(pdata, pktlength); > dev->stats.rx_dropped++; > break; > } Hum, looking at this driver, I see wrong code in lines 1246/1247 skb->data = skb->head; skb_reset_tail_pointer(skb); I suspect its hiding a buffer overflow bug or something. netdev_alloc_skb() reserved NET_SKB_PAD bytes. A driver should not un-reserve this headroom, or some networking setups can be very slow. So pdata->ops->rx_readfifo(pdata, (unsigned int *)skb->head, pktwords); also should be fixed to use skb->data instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html