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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@gnudd.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
	Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, raffaele.recalcati@bticino.it
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ethernet: ks8851_mll fix rx frame buffer overflow
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:39:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332859171.10620.0.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327130144.GA555@recalcati>

Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 15:01 +0200, Davide Ciminaghi a écrit :
> If interrupts are disabled long enough to allow for more than
> 32 frames to accumulate in the MAC's internal buffers, a buffer
> overflow occurs. This patch fixes the problem by making the
> driver's frame_head_info buffer bigger enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@gnudd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raffaele Recalcati <raffaele.recalcati@bticino.it>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> index 2784bc7..a158e89 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>  #define	DRV_NAME	"ks8851_mll"
>  
>  static u8 KS_DEFAULT_MAC_ADDRESS[] = { 0x00, 0x10, 0xA1, 0x86, 0x95, 0x11 };
> -#define MAX_RECV_FRAMES			32
> +#define MAX_RECV_FRAMES			256
>  #define MAX_BUF_SIZE			2048
>  #define TX_BUF_SIZE			2000
>  #define RX_BUF_SIZE			2000

How can this fix the problem for good ?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-27 13:01 [PATCH] net/ethernet: ks8851_mll fix rx frame buffer overflow Davide Ciminaghi
2012-03-27 14:39 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-03-27 21:31   ` David Miller
2012-03-28  7:05   ` Raffaele Recalcati
2012-03-28  7:12     ` David Miller
2012-03-28  7:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-28 10:51       ` Davide Ciminaghi

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