From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mv643xx_eth fixes for 2.6.30 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090429.172454.88395298.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090429215625.GY14729@mail.wantstofly.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: buytenh@wantstofly.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45283 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751667AbZD3AZA (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:25:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090429215625.GY14729@mail.wantstofly.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Lennert Buytenhek Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:56:25 +0200 > Two more fixes for mv643xx_eth for 2.6.30: > 1. Fix OOM handling, mv643xx_eth will currently just get into an > infinite netdev_alloc_skb() loop on OOM due to a logic bug. > 2. Fix problem where hardware 64bit MIB counters are actually 32bit > (and reads from the upper and lower halves have the same effect), > which can cause the software stats counters to spuriously increment > by some multiple of 2^32 if a packet comes in at the right moment. > > Since these should also go into 2.6.29.X, I added "Cc: stable@kernel.org" > on both. > > Please apply, thanks! Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!