On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 14:45 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> With 3.8-rc1, there are WARNINGS that the driver is not checking for
> DMA mapping errors. The warnings start with
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:933 check_unmap+0x480/0x950()
> Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv2700 Notebook PC
> forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: DMA-API: device driver failed to check
>  map error[device address=0x00000000b176e002] [size=90 bytes] [mapped as 
> single]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Please check that the error returns are correctly done.
[...]
> @@ -2217,6 +2229,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit(struct
>               bcnt = (size > NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE) ? NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE : 
> size;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma = pci_map_single(np->pci_dev, skb->data + 
> offset, bcnt,
>                                               PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +             if (pci_dma_mapping_error(np->pci_dev,
> +                                       np->put_tx_ctx->dma))
> +                     return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma_len = bcnt;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma_single = 1;
>               put_tx->buf = cpu_to_le32(np->put_tx_ctx->dma);
> @@ -2337,6 +2352,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit_optimiz
>               bcnt = (size > NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE) ? NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE : 
> size;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma = pci_map_single(np->pci_dev, skb->data + 
> offset, bcnt,
>                                               PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
> +             if (pci_dma_mapping_error(np->pci_dev,
> +                                       np->put_tx_ctx->dma))
> +                     return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma_len = bcnt;
>               np->put_tx_ctx->dma_single = 1;
>               put_tx->bufhigh = cpu_to_le32(dma_high(np->put_tx_ctx->dma));
[...]

In these cases the skb should be freed and the return value should be
NETDEV_TX_OK.

Ben.

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