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.



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