On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:14 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:24:31PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 23:04 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > There is a race on the shutdown path of the e1000 driver > > > that allows the card to DMA into free'd memory. [] > > Note- there are trailing whitespace issues and 2 comments are not > > formatted correctly. I can fix these up if there are no other issues > > with the patch, if you want. > > checkpatch.pl did not complain about those - feel free to fix them, > thanks.
Maybe you need a newer version of checkpatch? $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl e1000-do-not-allow-watchdog-to-reenable-transmits-on-shutdown.patch ERROR: trailing whitespace #63: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:528: +^I/* do not allow watchdog to reenable transmits between $ ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible #64: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:529: + clearing E1000_TCTL_EN below and setting E1000_DOWN */$ WARNING: networking block comments start with * on subsequent lines #64: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:529: + /* do not allow watchdog to reenable transmits between + clearing E1000_TCTL_EN below and setting E1000_DOWN */ WARNING: networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line #64: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:529: + clearing E1000_TCTL_EN below and setting E1000_DOWN */ total: 2 errors, 2 warnings, 44 lines checked NOTE: whitespace errors detected, you may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or scripts/cleanfile e1000-do-not-allow-watchdog-to-reenable-transmits-on-shutdown.patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired