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net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue
authorFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:26:05 +0000 (15:26 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:31:12 +0000 (09:31 -0700)
commit999e0d18786192faf8240a5048dd1a08cf5d4bd0
tree08d6a44c00e4ca55c5a83c735ca724ee64e9f1ab
parent779fb6074843a685c241874a5b308fd56cbdb35f
net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue

[ Upstream commit 881d0327db37ad917a367c77aff1afa1ee41e0a9 ]

Note: This is a verified backported patch for stable 4.4 kernel, and it
could also be applied to 4.3/4.2/4.1/3.18/3.16

There is a problem with alx devices, that the network link will be
lost in 1-5 minutes after the device is up.

>From debugging without datasheet, we found the error always
happen when the DMA RX address is set to 0x....fc0, which is very
likely to be a HW/silicon problem.

This patch will apply rx skb with 64 bytes longer space, and if the
allocated skb has a 0x...fc0 address, it will use skb_resever(skb, 64)
to advance the address, so that the RX overflow can be avoided.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Ole Lukoie <olelukoie@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c