[patch 02/41] ixgb: fix bug when freeing resources

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 13:52:15 EST


2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 23e55a32ca1ffdbe7a492ef99f0e0ac48e504a13 upstream.

It was pointed out by Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> that
ixgb would crash on PPC when an IOMMU was in use, if change_mtu was
called.

It appears to be a pretty simple issue in the driver that wasn't discovered
because most systems don't run with an IOMMU. The driver needs to only unmap
buffers that are mapped (duh).

CC: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -977,15 +977,17 @@ ixgb_clean_rx_ring(struct ixgb_adapter *

for (i = 0; i < rx_ring->count; i++) {
buffer_info = &rx_ring->buffer_info[i];
- if (buffer_info->skb) {
-
+ if (buffer_info->dma) {
pci_unmap_single(pdev,
buffer_info->dma,
buffer_info->length,
PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+ buffer_info->dma = 0;
+ buffer_info->length = 0;
+ }

+ if (buffer_info->skb) {
dev_kfree_skb(buffer_info->skb);
-
buffer_info->skb = NULL;
}
}

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