This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled atl1e: drop pci-msi support because of packet corruption to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: atl1e-drop-pci-msi-support-because-of-packet-corruption.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f7519c9e43b6d902a36ee9a5eef77f126dda5307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:10:50 +0000 Subject: atl1e: drop pci-msi support because of packet corruption From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 188ab1b105c96656f6bcfb49d0d8bb1b1936b632 ] Usage of pci-msi results in corrupted dma packet transfers to the host. Reported-by: rebelyouth <rebelyouth.hacklab@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huang, Xiong <xiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Christian Sünkenberg <christian.suenkenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c | 22 ++-------------------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e.h @@ -438,7 +438,6 @@ struct atl1e_adapter { struct atl1e_hw hw; struct atl1e_hw_stats hw_stats; - bool have_msi; u32 wol; u16 link_speed; u16 link_duplex; --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c @@ -1870,37 +1870,19 @@ static void atl1e_free_irq(struct atl1e_ struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev; free_irq(adapter->pdev->irq, netdev); - - if (adapter->have_msi) - pci_disable_msi(adapter->pdev); } static int atl1e_request_irq(struct atl1e_adapter *adapter) { struct pci_dev *pdev = adapter->pdev; struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev; - int flags = 0; int err = 0; - adapter->have_msi = true; - err = pci_enable_msi(adapter->pdev); - if (err) { - netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, - "Unable to allocate MSI interrupt Error: %d\n", err); - adapter->have_msi = false; - } else - netdev->irq = pdev->irq; - - - if (!adapter->have_msi) - flags |= IRQF_SHARED; - err = request_irq(adapter->pdev->irq, atl1e_intr, flags, - netdev->name, netdev); + err = request_irq(pdev->irq, atl1e_intr, IRQF_SHARED, + netdev->name, netdev); if (err) { netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, "Unable to allocate interrupt Error: %d\n", err); - if (adapter->have_msi) - pci_disable_msi(adapter->pdev); return err; } netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev, "atl1e_request_irq OK\n"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/atl1e-drop-pci-msi-support-because-of-packet-corruption.patch queue-3.4/ipv6-don-t-accept-multicast-traffic-with-scope-0.patch queue-3.4/ipv6-don-t-accept-node-local-multicast-traffic-from-the-wire.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html