From: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Short packets has to be discarded by the driver. So this patch addresses the
issue of discarding the short packets of size lesser then ethernet header
size.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index 6dfc2c9..aa407b2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -1652,6 +1652,13 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget)
skb_put(skb, len);
push_packet:
+ if (skb->len < ETH_HLEN) {
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: short packets dropped\n",
+ dev->ndev->name);
+ ++dev->estats.rx_dropped_stack;
+ goto next;
+ }
skb->dev = dev->ndev;
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev->ndev);
emac_rx_csum(dev, skb, ctrl);
--
1.5.6
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