[PATCHv2 08/11] fec: fix uninitialized rx buffer usage

Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria at canonical.com
Wed Feb 3 13:33:16 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Amit Kucheria
> <amit.kucheria at canonical.com> wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <r.herring at freescale.com>
>>
>> The fec driver was enabling receive buffer descriptor without allocating
>> the buffers. Make sure the buffer descriptors are initialized to not
>> start receiving packets.
>>
>> Open also calls fec_restart after the rx buffers are allocated. With the code
>> in fec_restart, it zeroes out the buffer descriptors that have just been
>> setup.
>
> fec related patches 8 & 9 look okay to me.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

Can I take that as an Acked-by?



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