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LKML: Manfred Spraul: [PATCH] forcedeth: fix random memory scribbling bug
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This bug <br />is critical, it causes random memory corruptions on systems with an iommu.<br /><br />Below is a minimal fix for both bugs, for inclusion into 2.6.15.<br />TSO will be fixed properly in the next version.<br />Tested on x86-64.<br /><br />Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com><br />--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2005-12-19 01:36:54.000000000 +0100<br />+++ x64/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2005-12-24 12:16:30.000000000 +0100<br />@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@<br /> * trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other<br /> * countries.<br /> *<br />- * Copyright (C) 2003,4 Manfred Spraul<br />+ * Copyright (C) 2003,4,5 Manfred Spraul<br /> * Copyright (C) 2004 Andrew de Quincey (wol support)<br /> * Copyright (C) 2004 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (invalid MAC handling, insane<br /> * IRQ rate fixes, bigendian fixes, cleanups, verification)<br />@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@<br /> * 0.45: 18 Sep 2005: Remove nv_stop/start_rx from every link check<br /> * 0.46: 20 Oct 2005: Add irq optimization modes.<br /> * 0.47: 26 Oct 2005: Add phyaddr 0 in phy scan.<br />+ * 0.48: 24 Dec 2005: Disable TSO, bugfix for pci_map_single<br /> *<br /> * Known bugs:<br /> * We suspect that on some hardware no TX done interrupts are generated.<br />@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@<br /> * DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ will not harm you on sane hardware, only generating a few<br /> * superfluous timer interrupts from the nic.<br /> */<br />-#define FORCEDETH_VERSION "0.47"<br />+#define FORCEDETH_VERSION "0.48"<br /> #define DRV_NAME "forcedeth"<br /> <br /> #include <linux/module.h><br />@@ -871,8 +872,8 @@<br /> } else {<br /> skb = np->rx_skbuff[nr];<br /> }<br />- np->rx_dma[nr] = pci_map_single(np->pci_dev, skb->data, skb->len,<br />- PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);<br />+ np->rx_dma[nr] = pci_map_single(np->pci_dev, skb->data,<br />+ skb->end-skb->data, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);<br /> if (np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_1 || np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_2) {<br /> np->rx_ring.orig[nr].PacketBuffer = cpu_to_le32(np->rx_dma[nr]);<br /> wmb();<br />@@ -999,7 +1000,7 @@<br /> wmb();<br /> if (np->rx_skbuff[i]) {<br /> pci_unmap_single(np->pci_dev, np->rx_dma[i],<br />- np->rx_skbuff[i]->len,<br />+ np->rx_skbuff[i]->end-np->rx_skbuff[i]->data,<br /> PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);<br /> dev_kfree_skb(np->rx_skbuff[i]);<br /> np->rx_skbuff[i] = NULL;<br />@@ -1334,7 +1335,7 @@<br /> * the performance.<br /> */<br /> pci_unmap_single(np->pci_dev, np->rx_dma[i],<br />- np->rx_skbuff[i]->len,<br />+ np->rx_skbuff[i]->end-np->rx_skbuff[i]->data,<br /> PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);<br /> <br /> {<br />@@ -2455,7 +2456,7 @@<br /> np->txrxctl_bits |= NVREG_TXRXCTL_RXCHECK;<br /> dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG;<br /> #ifdef NETIF_F_TSO<br />- dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO;<br />+ /* disabled dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO; */<br /> #endif<br /> }<br /> </pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-24 14:26 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>