Subject: Re: [net-next 4/4] e1000e: allocate ring descriptors with dma_zalloc_coherent

From: Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:09:29 -0800

On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 10:23 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 10:16 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Pierre-Yves Kerbrat <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Descriptor rings were not initialized at zero when allocated
> > When area contained garbage data, it caused skb_over_panic in
> > e1000_clean_rx_irq (if data had E1000_RXD_STAT_DD bit set)
> > 
> > This patch makes use of dma_zalloc_coherent to make sure the
> > ring is memset at 0 to prevent the area from containing garbage.
> > 
> 
> This looks like a net candidate, fixing a bug, with 0 chance adding a
> regression IMO.

I am fine with that.  Dave, let me know if you want me to re-submit
this change for net/stable.