I have actually tested e1000 driver on the real hardware(Intel 82540EM PCI
Gigabit Ethernet Controller), and find a potential bug:
The target file is drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c, which is
used to build e1000.ko.
(1) In the normal process, netif_napi_add is called in e1000_probe, but
netif_napi_del is not called in e1000_remove. However, many other ethernet
card drivers call them in pairs, even in the error handling paths, such as
r8169 and igb.
Meanwhile, I also write the patch to fix the bug. I have run the patch on
the hardware, it can work normally and fix the above bug.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 24f3986..f6def7b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
struct pci_device_id *ent)
/* make ready for any if (hw->...) below */
err = e1000_init_hw_struct(adapter, hw);
if (err)
- goto err_sw_init;
+ goto err_dma;
/* there is a workaround being applied below that limits
* 64-bit DMA addresses to 64-bit hardware. There are some
@@ -1239,8 +1239,9 @@ err_eeprom:
iounmap(hw->flash_address);
kfree(adapter->tx_ring);
kfree(adapter->rx_ring);
-err_dma:
err_sw_init:
+ netif_napi_del(&adapter->napi);
+err_dma:
err_mdio_ioremap:
iounmap(hw->ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt);
iounmap(hw->hw_addr);
@@ -1271,6 +1272,7 @@ static void e1000_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
e1000_down_and_stop(adapter);
e1000_release_manageability(adapter);
+ netif_napi_del(&adapter->napi);
unregister_netdev(netdev);
e1000_phy_hw_reset(hw);
Thanks!
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