Re: Corrupt Network Packets -- 3.17-rc5/rc6

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 22 2014 - 13:38:39 EST


From: Pete Clements <clem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:24:59 -0400 (EDT)

> Quoting Cong Wang
> > <clem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Heads up fyi: system is i386 UP.
> > >
> > > Started getting some pop3 reception errors from the above system.
> > > Investigating the problem discovered scp of the mailbox failed
> > > with "Corrupted MAC on input"
> > >
> > > Problem started with rc5, still in rc6. Running rc4 with no
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Sorry for lack of better definition.
> >
> >
> > Which driver are you using?
> >
> Here's the output from boot log:
>
> PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
> 3c59x 0000:00:0d.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 11
> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
> 0000:00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPC at d8812000.

Should be fixed by:

commit 8400dd029e764e30361a51a7ae35900ae0032b43
Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 17 09:04:45 2014 -0400

3c59x: Fix bad offset spec in skb_frag_dma_map

Recently aded the use of skb_frag_dma_map to 3c59x, but didn't realize it
automatically included the frag_offset internally, as well as provided an option
to specify an extra offset in the parameter list. We need to specify an offset
of 0 in the parameter list to avoid skb corruption that results in lost
connections.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
index 8ab87ff..8ca49f04 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
@@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ boomerang_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];

dma_addr = skb_frag_dma_map(&VORTEX_PCI(vp)->dev, frag,
- frag->page_offset,
+ 0,
frag->size,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
if (dma_mapping_error(&VORTEX_PCI(vp)->dev, dma_addr)) {
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