Subject: Re: 1e918876 breaks r8169 (linux-3.18+)

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:46:25 +0100

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hold on.
> 
> I believe there is one race in the way you access skb->xmit_more _after_
> 
> txd->opts1 = cpu_to_le32(status);
> 
> After this point, TX might have completed and TX completion already have
> freed skb

Hmm, I _thought_ HW would not start xmit of this descriptor/skb until after

RTL_W8(TxPoll, NPQ);

call a bit later... your patch surely looks safer though, thanks for
looking into this.

> Could Tomas try following fix ?

In addition -- Tomas, on your affected board -- did you try
turning off gso/tso?

Holger Hoffstätte mentioned on lkml that his affected r8169 nic is
stable with xmit_more+bql after disabling gso/tso on the nic

(ethtool -k $dev to display settings, "-K $dev tso off gso off" to
 disable offloads).