Bug in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c, TX is broken. In 4.0.0-rc3

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 15:35:30 PDT 2015


Hi Russell,

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Given that this bug can seriously screw data up in undetectable ways (TCP
> checksums don't save you, because the FEC generates them on the data which
> it read from memory, even if it happened to read the data from the SoC's
> boot ROM) we do need to get this fixed ASAP.

Current mainline has 2b995f63987013 reverted, so 4.0-rc5 will not have
this corruption problem.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam



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