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 | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/smc911x.c b/drivers/net/smc911x.c index 1fca58ab84..8a0fa5cc25 100644 --- a/drivers/net/smc911x.c +++ b/drivers/net/smc911x.c @@ -460,14 +460,14 @@ static int smc911x_eth_rx(struct eth_device *edev) smc911x_reg_write(priv, RX_CFG, 0); tmplen = (pktlen + 3) / 4; - while(tmplen--) - *data++ = 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 - net_receive(edev, priv->rx_buf, pktlen); + + if (pktlen > PKTSIZE || (status & RX_STS_ES)) { + while (tmplen--) + smc911x_reg_read(priv, RX_DATA_FIFO); + } else { + while (tmplen--) + *data++ = smc911x_reg_read(priv, RX_DATA_FIFO); + } } return 0; -- 2.39.2