On 12-05-10 01:31 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 3.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
..
> From: Ingo van Lil <[email protected]>
> [ Upstream commit 2a5809499e35b53a6044fd34e72b242688b7a862 ]
> 
> The asix.c USB Ethernet driver avoids ending a tx transfer with a zero-
> length packet by appending a four-byte padding to transfers whose length
> is a multiple of maxpacket. However, the hard-coded 512 byte maxpacket
> length is valid for high-speed USB only; full-speed USB uses 64 byte
> packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/asix.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/asix.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *asix_tx_fixup(str
>       u32 packet_len;
>       u32 padbytes = 0xffff0000;
>  
> -     padlen = ((skb->len + 4) % 512) ? 0 : 4;
> +     padlen = ((skb->len + 4) & (dev->maxpacket - 1)) ? 0 : 4;
>  
>       if ((!skb_cloned(skb)) &&
>           ((headroom + tailroom) >= (4 + padlen))) {
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *asix_tx_fixup(str
>       cpu_to_le32s(&packet_len);
>       skb_copy_to_linear_data(skb, &packet_len, sizeof(packet_len));
>  
> -     if ((skb->len % 512) == 0) {
> +     if (padlen) {
>               cpu_to_le32s(&padbytes);
>               memcpy(skb_tail_pointer(skb), &padbytes, sizeof(padbytes));
>               skb_put(skb, sizeof(padbytes));
> 
> 

This patch changes behaviour even for high-speed USB.
Was this intentional, and why?

Thanks
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