I ran a test on 2.6.16 kernel and had no trouble receiving vlan packets using a
driver built with HAVE_8021P_SUPPORT defined.
Just so we're on the same page, here's the simple patch for kcompat.h (also
attached):
--- cut here ---
--- kcompat.h_orig 2014-03-07 18:01:55.0 -0800
+++
On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 17:59 -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.
>
> The symptoms are similar to those described at
> commit d5bc77a223b0e9b9dfb002048d2b34a79e7d0b48,
> "e1000: don't enable dma re
There is a race on the shutdown path of the e1000 driver
that allows the card to DMA into free'd memory.
The symptoms are similar to those described at
commit d5bc77a223b0e9b9dfb002048d2b34a79e7d0b48,
"e1000: don't enable dma receives until after dma address has been
setup", where memory corrupti
On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 18:00 -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
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.
> >
> > The symptoms are similar to those described at
>
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
From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:14:35 -0300
> checkpatch.pl did not complain about those - feel free to fix them,
> thanks.
The problem is that GIT does when the maintainer applies your
patch.
You can sanity check your patch using GIT without commiting it
into the tree you are us
Thanks for replying Emli.
We really appreciate and are really thankful for your efforts on this.
Please let us know when you have any update on this.
Thanks & Regards
Vijay Agrawal
-Original Message-
From: Tantilov, Emil S [mailto:emil.s.tanti...@intel.com]
Sent: 07 March 2014 01:57
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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.
> >
> > The symptoms are similar to those described at
>
