This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tg3: Don't check undefined error bits in RXBD to the 3.10-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: tg3-don-t-check-undefined-error-bits-in-rxbd.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 Mar 19 23:28:23 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2014 From: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:05:10 -0800 Subject: tg3: Don't check undefined error bits in RXBD From: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d7b95315cc7f441418845a165ee56df723941487 ] Redefine the RXD_ERR_MASK to include only relevant error bits. This fixes a customer reported issue of randomly dropping packets on the 5719. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c @@ -6687,8 +6687,7 @@ static int tg3_rx(struct tg3_napi *tnapi work_mask |= opaque_key; - if ((desc->err_vlan & RXD_ERR_MASK) != 0 && - (desc->err_vlan != RXD_ERR_ODD_NIBBLE_RCVD_MII)) { + if (desc->err_vlan & RXD_ERR_MASK) { drop_it: tg3_recycle_rx(tnapi, tpr, opaque_key, desc_idx, *post_ptr); --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h @@ -2587,7 +2587,11 @@ struct tg3_rx_buffer_desc { #define RXD_ERR_TOO_SMALL 0x00400000 #define RXD_ERR_NO_RESOURCES 0x00800000 #define RXD_ERR_HUGE_FRAME 0x01000000 -#define RXD_ERR_MASK 0xffff0000 + +#define RXD_ERR_MASK (RXD_ERR_BAD_CRC | RXD_ERR_COLLISION | \ + RXD_ERR_LINK_LOST | RXD_ERR_PHY_DECODE | \ + RXD_ERR_MAC_ABRT | RXD_ERR_TOO_SMALL | \ + RXD_ERR_NO_RESOURCES | RXD_ERR_HUGE_FRAME) u32 reserved; u32 opaque; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/tg3-don-t-check-undefined-error-bits-in-rxbd.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