Subject: Re: Help: major pppoe regression since 2.6.35 (panic on first ppp conection)?

From: Joel Soete <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:51:05 +0000

Hello Jarek,

On 12/25/2010 12:10 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 04:13:25PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:22:25AM +0000, Joel Soete wrote:
>>> Hello Jarek,
>> Hi Joel,
>>
[snip]
>
> Alas the list rejected your message (try to limit it to ~200kb next
> time).
>
Ah ok I will take care next ;<)

> Anyway, it looks like the sundance driver is the main guilty. The
> patch below removes one obvious bug but there could be something more.
> Please, apply this one and my previous debugging patch to the clean
> 2.6.37-rc7. (If there're still warnings the first ~20kb should do.)
>
> Thanks,
> Jarek P.
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sundance.c b/drivers/net/sundance.c
> index 3ed2a67..b409d7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sundance.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sundance.c
> @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ static void init_ring(struct net_device *dev)
>
>   	/* Fill in the Rx buffers.  Handle allocation failure gracefully. */
>   	for (i = 0; i<  RX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
> -		struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz);
> +		struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz + 2);
>   		np->rx_skbuff[i] = skb;
>   		if (skb == NULL)
>   			break;
> @@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ static void refill_rx (struct net_device *dev)
>   		struct sk_buff *skb;
>   		entry = np->dirty_rx % RX_RING_SIZE;
>   		if (np->rx_skbuff[entry] == NULL) {
> -			skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz);
> +			skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz + 2);
>   			np->rx_skbuff[entry] = skb;
>   			if (skb == NULL)
>   				break;		/* Better luck next round. */
>
I don't have any more warnings :<)

Awesome job.

Thanks a lot for help and I wish you a Happy new year,
	J.