Joel Soete reported oopses at the beginning of pppoe connections since
v2.6.35. After debugging the bug was found in sundance skb allocation
and dma mapping code, where skb_reserve() bytes aren't taken into
account. This is an old bug, only uncovered by some change in 2.6.35.
Initial debugging patch by: Eric Dumazet <
[email protected]>
Reported-by: Joel Soete <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Joel Soete <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
/* Fill in the Rx buffers. Handle allocation failure gracefully. */
for (i = 0; i < RX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
- struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz);
+ struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz + 2);
np->rx_skbuff[i] = skb;
if (skb == NULL)
break;
struct sk_buff *skb;
entry = np->dirty_rx % RX_RING_SIZE;
if (np->rx_skbuff[entry] == NULL) {
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz);
+ skb = dev_alloc_skb(np->rx_buf_sz + 2);
np->rx_skbuff[entry] = skb;
if (skb == NULL)
break; /* Better luck next round. */