This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
r8169-prevent-rxfifo-induced-loops-in-the-irq-handler.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it.
>From f60ac8e7ab7cbb413a0131d5665b053f9f386526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:27:52 +0100
Subject: r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.
From: Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
commit f60ac8e7ab7cbb413a0131d5665b053f9f386526 upstream.
While the RxFIFO interruption is masked for most 8168, nothing prevents
it to appear in the irq status word. This is no excuse to crash.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Ivan Vecera <ivec...@redhat.com>
Cc: Hayes <hayesw...@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/r8169.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -4613,6 +4613,14 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8169_interrupt(int
netif_stop_queue(dev);
rtl8169_tx_timeout(dev);
goto done;
+ /* Testers needed. */
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_17:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_19:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_20:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_21:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_23:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_24:
+ case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27:
/* Experimental science. Pktgen proof. */
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12:
case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_25:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rom...@fr.zoreil.com are
queue-2.6.37/r8169-prevent-rxfifo-induced-loops-in-the-irq-handler.patch
queue-2.6.37/r8169-use-rxfifo-overflow-workaround-for-8168c-chipset.patch
queue-2.6.37/drivers-net-call-netif_carrier_off-at-the-end-of-the-probe.patch
queue-2.6.37/r8169-rxfifo-overflow-oddities-with-8168-chipsets.patch
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