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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com
Cc: mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: errors in alignment changes..
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:42:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141210.204215.46146677361631214.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5488C447.5080906@cogentembedded.com>

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:08:07 +0300

>    I guess we can just do:
> 
> 		rxdesc->addr = dma_map_single(...);

Best not to leave a potentially invalid DMA address in a
receive descriptor the chip can potentially fetch and
look at.

That's why I said to put it into a local variable and
check for errors first.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10 20:52 errors in alignment changes David Miller
2014-12-10 22:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-12-11  1:42   ` David Miller [this message]
2014-12-12  4:30     ` Simon Horman
2014-12-12 12:00       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-12-16  5:33         ` Simon Horman

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