Patch "atl1e: drop pci-msi support because of packet corruption" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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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
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