Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 7 authors, 2017-11-20

Re: [PATCH v2] net: mvneta: fix handling of the Tx descriptor counter

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2017-11-14 12:53:43
Also in: stable

From: Simon Guinot <redacted>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:27:02 +0100
The mvneta controller provides a 8-bit register to update the pending
Tx descriptor counter. Then, a maximum of 255 Tx descriptors can be
added at once. In the current code the mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add function
assumes the caller takes care of this limit. But it is not the case. In
some situations (xmit_more flag), more than 255 descriptors are added.
When this happens, the Tx descriptor counter register is updated with a
wrong value, which breaks the whole Tx queue management.

This patch fixes the issue by allowing the mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add
function to process more than 255 Tx descriptors.

Fixes: 2a90f7e1d5d0 ("net: mvneta: add xmit_more support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11+
Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <redacted>
Applied.
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