Re: Poss. bug in tulip driver since 2.4.7

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Prasanna Meda <pmeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The inner for loop shown below was not
> > supposed to be  inside  the  outside  loop.
> > They  also use  the  same index i.
> > Due to  this, when mc_count is more than
> > 14,  with non ASIX chips,  panics, corruptions
> > and  denial of services to multicast addresses
> > can  result!
> >
> > http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c#L1055
>
>
> So can you confirm that the driver works correctly with this change?
>
> --- 25/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c~tulip-hash-fix	2003-11-11 18:51:52.000000000 -0800
> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c	2003-11-11 18:52:31.000000000 -0800


Patch looks sane to me...

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