Re: [PATCH 2.6.29.1 1/1] 8139too: fix HW initial flow

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:30:24 +0200

> Amos Kong a écrit :
>> ...
>>  While ifconfig eth0 up kernel calls open() of 8139 driver(8139too.c).
>>  In rtl8139_hw_start() of rtl8139_open(), 8139 driver enable RX before setting up the DMA
>>  buffer address. In this interval where RX was enabled and DMA buffer address is not yet set
>>  up, any incoming broadcast packet would be send to a strange physical address:
>>  0x003e8800 which is the default value of DMA buffer address.
>>  Unfortunately, this address is used by Linux kernel. So kernel panics.
>>  This patch fix it by setting up DMA buffer address before RX enabled and everything is fine
>>  even under broadcast packets attack.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lin <jon.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <jianjun@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Amos and Jonathan

Applied, thanks everyone.
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