This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ibmveth: Fix alignment of rx queue bug
to the 3.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ibmveth-fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d90c92fee89ccd75ef2646f3bde0b4c0450666c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Santiago Leon <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:41:37 +0000
Subject: ibmveth: Fix alignment of rx queue bug
From: Santiago Leon <[email protected]>
commit d90c92fee89ccd75ef2646f3bde0b4c0450666c3 upstream.
This patch fixes a bug found by Nish Aravamudan
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/15/220) where the driver is not following
the spec (it is not aligning the rx buffer on a 16-byte boundary) and the
hypervisor aborts the registration, making the device unusable.
The fix follows BenH's recommendation (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/461)
to replace the kmalloc+map for a single call to dma_alloc_coherent()
because that function always aligns to a 16-byte boundary.
The stable trees will run into this bug whenever the rx buffer kmalloc call
returns something not aligned on a 16-byte boundary.
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 26 +++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
@@ -472,14 +472,9 @@ static void ibmveth_cleanup(struct ibmve
}
if (adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr != NULL) {
- if (!dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma)) {
- dma_unmap_single(dev,
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma,
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
- DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = DMA_ERROR_CODE;
- }
- kfree(adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr);
+ dma_free_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
+ adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr,
+ adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma);
adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = NULL;
}
@@ -556,10 +551,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic
goto err_out;
}
+ dev = &adapter->vdev->dev;
+
adapter->rx_queue.queue_len = sizeof(struct ibmveth_rx_q_entry) *
rxq_entries;
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = kmalloc(adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr =
+ dma_alloc_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
+ &adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr) {
netdev_err(netdev, "unable to allocate rx queue pages\n");
@@ -567,19 +565,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic
goto err_out;
}
- dev = &adapter->vdev->dev;
-
adapter->buffer_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
adapter->buffer_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
adapter->filter_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
adapter->filter_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr,
- adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
if ((dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->buffer_list_dma)) ||
- (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma)) ||
- (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma))) {
+ (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma))) {
netdev_err(netdev, "unable to map filter or buffer list "
"pages\n");
rc = -ENOMEM;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.5/ibmveth-fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
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