[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "dm9601: fix reception of full size ethernet frames on dm9620/dm9621a" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Jan 13 19:24:16 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm9601: fix reception of full size ethernet frames on dm9620/dm9621a

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a6aef6a83f06dcd53a4795bd41431393ded20bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:35:33 +0100
Subject: dm9601: fix reception of full size ethernet frames on dm9620/dm9621a

commit 407900cfb54bdb2cfa228010b6697305f66b2948 upstream.

dm9620/dm9621a require room for 4 byte padding even in dm9601 (3 byte
header) mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
index c929122..ae2668e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
@@ -364,7 +364,12 @@ static int dm9601_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 	dev->net->ethtool_ops = &dm9601_ethtool_ops;
 	dev->net->hard_header_len += DM_TX_OVERHEAD;
 	dev->hard_mtu = dev->net->mtu + dev->net->hard_header_len;
-	dev->rx_urb_size = dev->net->mtu + ETH_HLEN + DM_RX_OVERHEAD;
+
+	/* dm9620/21a require room for 4 byte padding, even in dm9601
+	 * mode, so we need +1 to be able to receive full size
+	 * ethernet frames.
+	 */
+	dev->rx_urb_size = dev->net->mtu + ETH_HLEN + DM_RX_OVERHEAD + 1;

 	dev->mii.dev = dev->net;
 	dev->mii.mdio_read = dm9601_mdio_read;
--
1.8.3.2





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