Bug in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c, TX is broken. In 4.0.0-rc3
Панов Андрей
rockford at yandex.ru
Sun Mar 22 13:08:01 PDT 2015
Hi!
22.03.2015, 01:35, "Fabio Estevam" <festevam at gmail.com>:
> 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.
I've tested with current mainline and with mainline+2b995f63987013 commit with Russell's
fix and it both works fine, without corruption.
--
Андрей
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