[PATCH] net: lpc_eth: no need to reserve 8 extra bytes in rx skb
From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2012-04-03 22:02:18
Subsystem:
arm/lpc32xx soc support, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Vladimir Zapolskiy, Piotr Wojtaszczyk, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Probably a leftover from ancient code... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted> Cc: Roland Stigge <redacted> --- This was mentioned in one of my review but ignored/lost. drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c
index 6dfc26d..d3469d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c@@ -990,10 +990,10 @@ static int __lpc_handle_recv(struct net_device *ndev, int budget) ndev->stats.rx_errors++; } else { /* Packet is good */ - skb = dev_alloc_skb(len + 8); - if (!skb) + skb = dev_alloc_skb(len); + if (!skb) { ndev->stats.rx_dropped++; - else { + } else { prdbuf = skb_put(skb, len); /* Copy packet from buffer */