On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 10:16 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Pierre-Yves Kerbrat <pkerb...@kalray.eu> > > Descriptor rings were not initialized at zero when allocated > When area contained garbage data, it caused skb_over_panic in > e1000_clean_rx_irq (if data had E1000_RXD_STAT_DD bit set) > > This patch makes use of dma_zalloc_coherent to make sure the > ring is memset at 0 to prevent the area from containing garbage. >
This looks like a net candidate, fixing a bug, with 0 chance adding a regression IMO.
