From: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing the valid descriptors on clean ring operation.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index 5d2108c..6dfc2c9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ static void emac_clean_tx_ring(struct emac_instance *dev) int i; for (i = 0; i < NUM_TX_BUFF; ++i) { - if (dev->tx_skb[i]) { + if (dev->tx_skb[i] && dev->tx_desc[i].data_ptr) { dev_kfree_skb(dev->tx_skb[i]); dev->tx_skb[i] = NULL; if (dev->tx_desc[i].ctrl & MAL_TX_CTRL_READY) @@ -2719,6 +2719,10 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev, /* Clean rings */ memset(dev->tx_desc, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor)); memset(dev->rx_desc, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor)); + for (i = 0; i <= NUM_TX_BUFF; i++) + dev->tx_skb[i] = NULL; + for (i = 0; i <= NUM_RX_BUFF; i++) + dev->rx_skb[i] = NULL; /* Attach to ZMII, if needed */ if (emac_has_feature(dev, EMAC_FTR_HAS_ZMII) && -- 1.5.6 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev