Re: [PATCH v2] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Jan 17 2011 - 12:33:34 EST


Le lundi 17 janvier 2011 Ã 17:21 +0800, Po-Yu Chuang a Ãcrit :


> +static int ftmac100_rx_packet(struct ftmac100 *priv, int *processed)
> +{
> + struct net_device *netdev = priv->netdev;
> + struct ftmac100_rxdes *rxdes;
> + struct sk_buff *skb;
> + int length;
> + int copied = 0;
> + int done = 0;
> +
> + rxdes = ftmac100_rx_locate_first_segment(priv);
> + if (!rxdes)
> + return 0;
> +
> + length = ftmac100_rxdes_frame_length(rxdes);
> +
> + netdev->stats.rx_packets++;
> + netdev->stats.rx_bytes += length;
> +
> + if (unlikely(ftmac100_rx_packet_error(priv, rxdes))) {
> + ftmac100_rx_drop_packet(priv);
> + return 1;
> + }
> +
> + /* start processing */
> + skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(netdev, length);
> + if (unlikely(!skb)) {
> + if (net_ratelimit())
> + netdev_err(netdev, "rx skb alloc failed\n");
> +
> + ftmac100_rx_drop_packet(priv);
> + return 1;
> + }
> +

Please dont increase rx_packets/rx_bytes before the
netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align().

In case of mem allocation failure, it would be better not pretending we
handled a packet.

drivers/net/r8169.c for example does the rx_packets/rx_bytes only if
packet is delivered to upper stack.



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