From: Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:51:10 +0300
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:35:53PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> This patch series contains two patches for the ethoc driver while testing on
>> a
>> TS-7300 board where ethoc is provided by an on-board FPGA.
>>
>> First patch was cooked after chasing crashes with invalid resources passed to
>> the driver.
>>
>> Second patch was cooked after seeing that an interface configured with IP
>> 192.168.2.2 was sending ARP packets for 192.168.0.0, no wonder why it could
>> not
>> work.
>
> I can see opencores intrerface sending ARP packets shorter than 64 bytes,
> but I couldn't reproduce truncation that affects packet contents on my
> hardware.
>
>> I don't have access to any other platform using an ethoc interface so
>> it could be good to some testing on Xtensa for instance.
>
> I've tested success and error paths affected by this series with the
> following additional change on top of it:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c
> index ca678d4..8c94f45 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c
> @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ethoc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct net_device *dev)
>
> if (skb_put_padto(skb, ETHOC_ZLEN)) {
> dev->stats.tx_errors++;
> - goto out;
> + return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> }
>
> if (unlikely(skb->len > ETHOC_BUFSIZ)) {
>
> Without it the interface becomes non-functional after the first error
> in skb_put_padto.
>
> Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com>
Indeed, skb_put_padto() frees the skb on error so this would have caused
a double free.
Florian, please respin this series with the fix and tags added.
Thanks.
