The hardware may report a packet longer than our receive buffer. Instead of reading past the read buffer, discard too long packets. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/smc911x.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/smc911x.c b/drivers/net/smc911x.c index 767d51761b..4b2bd79392 100644 --- a/drivers/net/smc911x.c +++ b/drivers/net/smc911x.c @@ -460,13 +460,18 @@ static int smc911x_eth_rx(struct eth_device *edev) smc911x_reg_write(priv, RX_CFG, 0); tmplen = (pktlen + 2 + 3) / 4; - while(tmplen--) - *data++ = smc911x_reg_read(priv, RX_DATA_FIFO); + if (tmplen <= PKTSIZE / sizeof(u32)) { + while (tmplen--) + *data++ = smc911x_reg_read(priv, RX_DATA_FIFO); + } else { + while (tmplen--) + smc911x_reg_read(priv, RX_DATA_FIFO); + } if(status & RX_STS_ES) dev_err(&edev->dev, "dropped bad packet. Status: 0x%08x\n", status); - else + else if (tmplen <= PKTSIZE / sizeof(u32)) net_receive(edev, priv->rx_buf, pktlen); } -- 2.39.2