[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "tg3: Don't check undefined error bits in RXBD" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    tg3: Don't check undefined error bits in RXBD

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 3.8.13.21.

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 accc3d4d88101dc572ab6ebb4cbca488ac881754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Chan <mchan at broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:05:10 -0800
Subject: tg3: Don't check undefined error bits in RXBD

[ Upstream commit d7b95315cc7f441418845a165ee56df723941487 ]

Redefine the RXD_ERR_MASK to include only relevant error bits. This fixes
a customer reported issue of randomly dropping packets on the 5719.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan at broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
index f13523d..d619517 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
@@ -6235,8 +6235,7 @@ static int tg3_rx(struct tg3_napi *tnapi, int budget)

 		work_mask |= opaque_key;

-		if ((desc->err_vlan & RXD_ERR_MASK) != 0 &&
-		    (desc->err_vlan != RXD_ERR_ODD_NIBBLE_RCVD_MII)) {
+		if (desc->err_vlan & RXD_ERR_MASK) {
 		drop_it:
 			tg3_recycle_rx(tnapi, tpr, opaque_key,
 				       desc_idx, *post_ptr);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
index 3deec2b..ed6c8fc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
@@ -2550,7 +2550,11 @@ struct tg3_rx_buffer_desc {
 #define RXD_ERR_TOO_SMALL		0x00400000
 #define RXD_ERR_NO_RESOURCES		0x00800000
 #define RXD_ERR_HUGE_FRAME		0x01000000
-#define RXD_ERR_MASK			0xffff0000
+
+#define RXD_ERR_MASK	(RXD_ERR_BAD_CRC | RXD_ERR_COLLISION |		\
+			 RXD_ERR_LINK_LOST | RXD_ERR_PHY_DECODE |	\
+			 RXD_ERR_MAC_ABRT | RXD_ERR_TOO_SMALL |		\
+			 RXD_ERR_NO_RESOURCES | RXD_ERR_HUGE_FRAME)

 	u32				reserved;
 	u32				opaque;
--
1.8.3.2