[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "qlge: Fix receive packets drop." has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    qlge: Fix receive packets drop.

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt9.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 487e065f3929b7fcfe0d8215f4560c8113f54227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra at qlogic.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:13:45 -0400
Subject: qlge: Fix receive packets drop.

[ Upstream commit 2c9a266afefe137bff06bbe0fc48b4d3b3cb348c ]

When running small packets [length < 256 bytes] traffic, packets were
being dropped due to invalid data in those packets which were
delivered by the driver upto the stack. Using pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu
ensures copying latest and updated data into skb from the receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko at qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra at qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
index 02b7115..c0191ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -1648,7 +1648,18 @@ static void ql_process_mac_rx_skb(struct ql_adapter *qdev,
 		return;
 	}
 	skb_reserve(new_skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
+
+	pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(qdev->pdev,
+				    dma_unmap_addr(sbq_desc, mapaddr),
+				    dma_unmap_len(sbq_desc, maplen),
+				    PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+
 	memcpy(skb_put(new_skb, length), skb->data, length);
+
+	pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(qdev->pdev,
+				       dma_unmap_addr(sbq_desc, mapaddr),
+				       dma_unmap_len(sbq_desc, maplen),
+				       PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
 	skb = new_skb;

 	/* Frame error, so drop the packet. */
--
2.7.4