On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:15:32PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > This clearly indicates that not every card using the r8169 driver is > vulnerable to the problem. It also explains why Holger was unable to > reproduce the result on his system: the PCIe cards do not appear to suffer > from the problem. Most likely the PCI RTL-8169 chip is affected, but newer > PCIe variations do not. However, obviously more testing will be required > with a wider variety of cards if this inference is to hold up.
The r8169 driver supports many slightly different variants of the chip. To identify your variant more precisely, look for a line like r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168evl/8111evl at 0xffffc90003135000, d4:3d:7e:2a:30:08, XID 0c900800 IRQ 38 in kernel log. Michal Kubecek
