> -----Original Message-----
> From: xuyongjia...@gmail.com [mailto:xuyongjia...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:07 PM
> To: eric.duma...@gmail.com
> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> ker...@vger.kernel.org; Yongjian Xu
> Subject: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: remove the check: skb->len<=0
> 
> From: Yongjian Xu <xuyongjia...@gmail.com>
> 
> There is no case skb->len would be 0 or 'negative'.
> Remove the check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongjian Xu <xuyongjia...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
> index 27058df..660971f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
> @@ -3105,11 +3105,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t e1000_xmit_frame(struct
> sk_buff *skb,
>        */
>       tx_ring = adapter->tx_ring;
> 
> -     if (unlikely(skb->len <= 0)) {
> -             dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> -             return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> -     }
> -
>       /* On PCI/PCI-X HW, if packet size is less than ETH_ZLEN,
>        * packets may get corrupted during padding by HW.
>        * To WA this issue, pad all small packets manually.
> --
> 1.9.1
What is the exact problem that this is fixing?  Did you have a test case that 
showed a problem with it?

Cheers,
John



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