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| author | Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com> | 2012-09-15 14:16:57 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-09-19 00:32:21 +0400 |
| commit | 59d86c760fbb855d9a26b9b280d4ff59303f2fc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 738d612af6e59bc57e61134a0551fb6a052e5a9b /drivers | |
| parent | 433a19548061bb5457b6ab77ed7ea58ca6e43ddb (diff) | |
| download | linux-59d86c760fbb855d9a26b9b280d4ff59303f2fc5.tar.xz | |
e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by HW
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 <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c index 3bfbb8df8989..bde337ee1a34 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 |