[PATCH] Re: kernel panics with net_rx_action on kernels >2.6.26

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:22:47AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
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> Jarek this looks good and it looks to be tested as well.
> 
> Could you formally submit this?

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drivers/net: starfire: Fix napi ->poll() weight handling

starfire napi ->poll() handler can return work == weight after calling
netif_rx_complete() (if there is no more work). It is illegal and this
patch fixes it.

Reported-by: Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/net/starfire.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/starfire.c b/drivers/net/starfire.c
index 0358809..f86d6bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/starfire.c
+++ b/drivers/net/starfire.c
@@ -1503,6 +1503,11 @@ static int __netdev_rx(struct net_device *dev, int *quota)
 		desc->status = 0;
 		np->rx_done = (np->rx_done + 1) % DONE_Q_SIZE;
 	}
+
+	if (*quota == 0) {	/* out of rx quota */
+		retcode = 1;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	writew(np->rx_done, np->base + CompletionQConsumerIdx);
 
  out:
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