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 | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c index ca63fa0..babc79a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c @@ -1636,6 +1636,12 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget) goto next; } + if (len < ETH_HLEN) { + ++dev->estats.rx_dropped_stack; + emac_recycle_rx_skb(dev, slot, len); + goto next; + } + if (len && len < EMAC_RX_COPY_THRESH) { struct sk_buff *copy_skb = alloc_skb(len + EMAC_RX_SKB_HEADROOM + 2, GFP_ATOMIC); -- 1.5.6.1 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev