[PATCH] r8169: incoming frame length check
The size of the incoming frame is not correctly checked. The RxMaxSize register (0xDA) does not work as expected and incoming frames whose size exceeds the MTU actually end spanning multiple descriptors. The first Rx descriptor contains the size of the whole frame (or some garbage in its place). The driver does not expect something above the space allocated to the current skb and crashes loudly when it issues a skb_put. The fix contains two parts: - disable hardware Rx size filtering: so far it only proved to be able to trigger some new fancy errors; - drop multi-descriptors frame: as the driver allocates MTU sized Rx buffers, it provides an adequate filtering. As a bonus, wrong descriptors were not returned to the asic after their processing. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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