On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 17:59 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> There is a race on the shutdown path of the e1000 driver
> that allows the card to DMA into free'd memory.
> 
> The symptoms are similar to those described at
> commit d5bc77a223b0e9b9dfb002048d2b34a79e7d0b48,
> "e1000: don't enable dma receives until after dma address has been
> setup", where memory corruption is visible due to E1000_RXD_STAT_DD
> being written to the DMA transfer descriptor.
> 
> Fix by not allowing the watchdog and tx fifo stall detector
> to re-enable E1000_TCTL_EN.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>

Thanks for the updated patch, I will update my queue.

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