This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gianfar: Don't enable RX Filer if not supported to the 4.3-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: gianfar-don-t-enable-rx-filer-if-not-supported.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:48:47 PST 2015 From: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:14:50 +1300 Subject: gianfar: Don't enable RX Filer if not supported From: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7bff47da1ee23d00d1257905f2944c29594f799d ] After commit 15bf176db1fb ("gianfar: Don't enable the Filer w/o the Parser"), 'TSEC' model controllers (for example as seen on MPC8541E) always have 8 bytes stripped from the front of received frames. Only 'eTSEC' gianfar controllers have the RX Filer capability (amongst other enhancements). Previously this was treated as always enabled for both 'TSEC' and 'eTSEC' controllers. In commit 15bf176db1fb ("gianfar: Don't enable the Filer w/o the Parser") a subtle change was made to the setting of 'uses_rxfcb' to effectively always set it (since 'rx_filer_enable' was always true). This had the side-effect of always stripping 8 bytes from the front of received frames on 'TSEC' type controllers. We now only enable the RX Filer capability on controller types that support it, thereby avoiding the issue for 'TSEC' type controllers. Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 8 +++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c @@ -894,7 +894,8 @@ static int gfar_of_init(struct platform_ FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_VLAN | FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_MAGIC_PACKET | FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_EXTENDED_HASH | - FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER; + FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER | + FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_RX_FILER; err = of_property_read_string(np, "phy-connection-type", &ctype); @@ -1393,8 +1394,9 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_de priv->rx_queue[i]->rxic = DEFAULT_RXIC; } - /* always enable rx filer */ - priv->rx_filer_enable = 1; + /* Always enable rx filer if available */ + priv->rx_filer_enable = + (priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_RX_FILER) ? 1 : 0; /* Enable most messages by default */ priv->msg_enable = (NETIF_MSG_IFUP << 1 ) - 1; /* use pritority h/w tx queue scheduling for single queue devices */ --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h @@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ struct gfar { #define FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_BD_STASHING 0x00000200 #define FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_BUF_STASHING 0x00000400 #define FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER 0x00000800 +#define FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_RX_FILER 0x00002000 #if (MAXGROUPS == 2) #define DEFAULT_MAPPING 0xAA Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.3/gianfar-don-t-enable-rx-filer-if-not-supported.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