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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net] e1000: Small packets may get corrupted during padding by
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:16:57 -0700

> From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
> 
> On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN,
> packets may get corrupted during padding by HW.
> To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

There has been a lot of bike shedding on this patch, but the fix is
correct and thus I'm going to apply it to 'net'.

Thanks.