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authorYunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>2017-03-08 23:13:28 -0800
committerYunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>2017-03-08 23:36:15 -0800
commit52f993b8e89487ec9ee15a7fb4979e0f09a45b27 (patch)
treed65304486afe0bea4a311c783c0d72791c8c0aa2 /kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
parentc189ccac5702322ed843fe17057035b7222a59b6 (diff)
Upgrade to 4.4.50-rt62
The current kernel is based on rt kernel v4.4.6-rt14. We will upgrade it to 4.4.50-rt62. The command to achieve it is: a) Clone a git repo from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git b) Get the diff between this two changesets: git diff 640eca2901f3435e616157b11379d3223a44b391 705619beeea1b0b48219a683fd1a901a86fdaf5e where the two commits are: [yjiang5@jnakajim-build linux-stable-rt]$ git show --oneline --name-only 640eca2901f3435e616157b11379d3223a44b391 640eca2901f3 v4.4.6-rt14 localversion-rt [yjiang5@jnakajim-build linux-stable-rt]$ git show --oneline --name-only 705619beeea1b0b48219a683fd1a901a86fdaf5e 705619beeea1 Linux 4.4.50-rt62 localversion-rt c) One patch has been backported thus revert the patch before applying. filterdiff -p1 -x scripts/package/Makefile ~/tmp/v4.4.6-rt14-4.4.50-rt62.diff |patch -p1 --dry-run Upstream status: backport Change-Id: I244d57a32f6066e5a5b9915f9fbf99e7bbca6e01 Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
index 467d41698..549ad2018 100644
--- a/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
@@ -1330,6 +1330,19 @@ static netdev_tx_t ravb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
buffer = PTR_ALIGN(priv->tx_align[q], DPTR_ALIGN) +
entry / NUM_TX_DESC * DPTR_ALIGN;
len = PTR_ALIGN(skb->data, DPTR_ALIGN) - skb->data;
+ /* Zero length DMA descriptors are problematic as they seem to
+ * terminate DMA transfers. Avoid them by simply using a length of
+ * DPTR_ALIGN (4) when skb data is aligned to DPTR_ALIGN.
+ *
+ * As skb is guaranteed to have at least ETH_ZLEN (60) bytes of
+ * data by the call to skb_put_padto() above this is safe with
+ * respect to both the length of the first DMA descriptor (len)
+ * overflowing the available data and the length of the second DMA
+ * descriptor (skb->len - len) being negative.
+ */
+ if (len == 0)
+ len = DPTR_ALIGN;
+
memcpy(buffer, skb->data, len);
dma_addr = dma_map_single(ndev->dev.parent, buffer, len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
if (dma_mapping_error(ndev->dev.parent, dma_addr))