This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/qeth: fix underestimated count of buffer elements to the 4.9-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: s390-qeth-fix-underestimated-count-of-buffer-elements.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Thu Mar 8 06:55:02 PST 2018 From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:03:49 +0100 Subject: s390/qeth: fix underestimated count of buffer elements From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 89271c65edd599207dd982007900506283c90ae3 ] For a memory range/skb where the last byte falls onto a page boundary (ie. 'end' is of the form xxx...xxx001), the PFN_UP() part of the calculation currently doesn't round up to the next PFN due to an off-by-one error. Thus qeth believes that the skb occupies one page less than it actually does, and may select a IO buffer that doesn't have enough spare buffer elements to fit all of the skb's data. HW detects this as a malformed buffer descriptor, and raises an exception which then triggers device recovery. Fixes: 2863c61334aa ("qeth: refactor calculation of SBALE count") Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ struct qeth_trap_id { */ static inline int qeth_get_elements_for_range(addr_t start, addr_t end) { - return PFN_UP(end - 1) - PFN_DOWN(start); + return PFN_UP(end) - PFN_DOWN(start); } static inline int qeth_get_micros(void) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-underestimated-count-of-buffer-elements.patch