Timo Teras :
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> So it's possible that some bad packets make the NIC return unexpected
> packet sizes, and the current code can panic on it.
>
> Any suggestions for better fix?
if (vptr->flags & VELOCITY_FLAGS_VAL_PKT_LEN) {
if (rd->rdesc0.RSR & RSR_RL) {
Huh ?
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From: Timo Teras
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:49:47 +0200
> + if (pkt_len < 4 || pkt_len > vptr->rx.buf_sz) {
> + VELOCITY_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_VERBOSE, KERN_ERR " %s : the received
> frame size %d is inconsistent.\n", vptr->netdev->name, pkt_len);
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> This seems to have fixed the panic
Hi,
I recently saw via-velocity skb_over_panic() on one of my locations.
The panic happened with two separate hardware devices, so it appears to
be network related, not broken hardware.
I did not get the actual over_panic printk, as I got only screen shot
of them monitor. But the visible part of
