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From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:04:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52891341.4020403@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52891178.2080509@pobox.com>

On 13-11-17 01:56 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 13-11-17 01:35 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>> The USB3 network adapter locks up consistently for me here in 3.12,
>> but was working without issues in 3.11.x
>>
>> Source of the problem is this patch:
>>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/264021/
>>
>> Reverting the patch fixes the adapter.
> 
> Okay, upon closer inspection, the bug appears to be a math error.
> Here's a simpler (non-revert) patch to fix the bug that was introduced in 3.12.
> 
> (un-mangled copy attached; reproduced below for ease of viewing).
> 
> Don't exceed more than the 8 bytes of reserved ("needed_headroom") space
> when calling pskb_expand_head.  This fixes a bug introduced in linux-3.12.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox•com>
> 
> 
> --- ax88179_178a.c.orig 2013-11-03 18:41:51.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c        2013-11-17 13:47:26.127971404 -0500
> @@ -1183,10 +1183,10 @@
>         if (((skb->len + 8) % frame_size) == 0)
>                 tx_hdr2 |= 0x80008000;  /* Enable padding */
> 
> -       headroom = skb_headroom(skb) - 8;
> +       headroom = skb_headroom(skb);
> 
> -       if ((skb_header_cloned(skb) || headroom < 0) &&
> -           pskb_expand_head(skb, headroom < 0 ? 8 : 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
> +       if ((skb_header_cloned(skb) || headroom < 8) &&
> +           pskb_expand_head(skb, headroom < 8 ? 8 - headroom : 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
>                 dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
>                 return NULL;
>         }
> 

Dagnabbit.. that still locked up just after I sent the email,
despite working fine in testing prior to that.

So.. sticking with the full revert here for now.
Perhaps one of you chaps can spot the bug.

-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox•com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-17 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <52890C7E.6000607@pobox.com>
2013-11-17 18:56 ` net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12 Mark Lord
2013-11-17 19:04   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2013-11-18 10:12     ` David Laight
2013-11-18 13:32       ` David Laight
2013-11-18 22:52         ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 10:04           ` David Laight
2013-11-19 13:44             ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 13:56               ` David Laight
2013-11-19 14:02             ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 14:15               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-19 14:24                 ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 14:43                 ` David Laight
2013-11-19 16:10                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-19 16:26                     ` David Laight
2013-11-19 21:13             ` David Miller
2013-11-20  9:54               ` David Laight
2013-11-20 16:54                 ` Sarah Sharp
2013-11-30  2:58                   ` Mark Lord
     [not found]                     ` <5299546B.2020800-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-02  9:30                       ` David Laight
2013-12-02 15:05                         ` Mark Lord
     [not found]                           ` <529CA1D2.2070806-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-02 19:08                             ` Sarah Sharp
2013-12-02 19:11                               ` Mark Lord
2013-12-02 19:18                               ` Greg KH

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