Re: [PATCH] fix hang in dmfe driver on sending of big packet (linux-2.6.35)

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

From: Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@netis.ru>

Le mardi 30 novembre 2010 à 16:46 +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov a écrit :
> Hello!
> 
> This patch fixes hang in dmfe driver on attempt of sending a big packet.
> Without this patch the code stops the queue and never wakes it again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@netis.ru>
> 

Nice catch, but your patch is not a "diff -p1" one

I did it for net-2.6 tree :

Thanks

[PATCH] tulip: fix hang in dmfe driver on sending of big packet

This patch fixes hang in dmfe driver on attempt of sending a big packet.
Without this patch the code stops the queue and never wakes it again.

Signed-off-by: Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@netis.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c b/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c
index a9f7d5d..7064e03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c
@@ -688,9 +688,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t dmfe_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	DMFE_DBUG(0, "dmfe_start_xmit", 0);
 
-	/* Resource flag check */
-	netif_stop_queue(dev);
-
 	/* Too large packet check */
 	if (skb->len > MAX_PACKET_SIZE) {
 		pr_err("big packet = %d\n", (u16)skb->len);
@@ -698,6 +695,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t dmfe_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
 
+	/* Resource flag check */
+	netif_stop_queue(dev);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
 
 	/* No Tx resource check, it never happen nromally */