Re: [PATCH] net: smsc911x: fix RX FIFO fastforwarding when dropping packets

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:03:50 +0100

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 05:08:00PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 16:54 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> >     net: smsc911x: fix skb handling in receive path
>> >     
>> >     The SMSC911x driver resets the ->head, ->data and ->tail pointers in the
>> >     skb on the reset path in order to avoid buffer overflow due to packet
>> >     padding performed by the hardware.
>> >     
>> >     This patch fixes the receive path so that the skb pointers are fixed up
>> >     after the data has been read from the device, The error path is also
>> >     fixed to use number of words consistently and prevent erroneous FIFO
>> >     fastforwarding when skipping over bad data.
>> >     
>> >     Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Seems fine to me
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks, Eric. Given that Steve's email doesn't appear to be working, can
> somebody else pick this up please?

Applied, thanks.