SUNGEM: Fix NAPI assertion failure.

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 21:13:29 EST


-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Upstream commit: da990a2402aeaee84837f29054c4628eb02f7493

As reported by Johannes Berg:

I started getting this warning with recent kernels:

[ 773.908927] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 773.908954] Badness at net/core/dev.c:2204
...

If we loop more than once in gem_poll(), we'll
use more than the real budget in our gem_rx()
calls, thus eventually trigger the caller's
assertions in net_rx_action().

Subtract "work_done" from "budget" for the second
arg to gem_rx() to fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/sungem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/sungem.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sungem.c
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ static int gem_poll(struct napi_struct *
* rx ring - must call napi_disable(), which
* schedule_timeout()'s if polling is already disabled.
*/
- work_done += gem_rx(gp, budget);
+ work_done += gem_rx(gp, budget - work_done);

if (work_done >= budget)
return work_done;

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