[net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by HW
From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-15 20:17:09
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Tushar Dave <redacted> On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN, packets may get corrupted during padding by HW. To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually. Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <redacted> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 3bfbb8d..bde337e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c@@ -3149,6 +3149,17 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, return NETDEV_TX_OK; } + /* On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN, + * packets may get corrupted during padding by HW. + * To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually. + */ + if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) { + if (skb_pad(skb, ETH_ZLEN - skb->len)) + return NETDEV_TX_OK; + skb->len = ETH_ZLEN; + skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, ETH_ZLEN); + } + mss = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size; /* The controller does a simple calculation to * make sure there is enough room in the FIFO before
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