From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, hayeswang@realtek.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:00:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e599b008-07c5-3de1-3349-a088bc3b6b1e@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23e0c132-8844-0a34-3e0b-e412f76493ba@pobox.com>
On 16-11-24 11:43 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
..
> But how does this ASCII data end up at offset zero of the rx buffer??
> Not possible -- this isn't even stale data, because only an rx_desc could
> be at that offset in that buffer.
Answering my own question here, I suspect it ends up there as a result
of overrunning the previous URB. So I have updated the test copy of the driver
here now to check for that exact situation. It's running now, but could take
hours or a day for the bug to occur again.
It seems I am being overly helpful here.
Perhaps I should have just stopped with the original regression report
(driver works in 3.12.xx, fails on all newer kernels, as a result of enabling
hardware checksums).
Had I left it there, one might reasonably expect the onus to be on the driver
developer to sort it out, with me providing retests of supplied patches as need be.
But I've gone WAY BEYOND that, even questioning the sanity of the platform on
which it is being used, just to avoid blaming a buggy USB dongle for some other issue.
And this is leading people to suspect that I really think the platform is buggy.
It isn't. It's been running for years, with a variety of USB hardware attached,
and nary a problem. Except with this r8152 dongle on kernels > 3.12.
So, yeah, the driver is fixed in our local tree, and has been for some time now.
I just was hoping that perhaps others might be interested in it too,
since the bug (whatever it is) corrupts data on the NFS server.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-24 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 7:15 [PATCH net 0/2] r8152: rx patches Hayes Wang
2016-11-11 7:15 ` [PATCH net 1/2] r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable Hayes Wang
2016-11-17 3:36 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-17 14:14 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-17 14:25 ` Mark Lord
[not found] ` <d683c019-4e0f-6fe6-368c-c4fc86c72fe6@pobox.com>
2016-11-18 7:57 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-18 12:03 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-22 13:12 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-23 3:52 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-23 13:41 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-23 15:12 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-23 19:29 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 3:24 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-24 12:31 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 13:26 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-24 15:24 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 6:11 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-25 12:36 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 16:21 ` David Miller
2016-11-24 16:43 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 17:00 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2016-11-24 17:13 ` David Miller
2016-11-24 17:11 ` David Miller
2016-11-24 18:34 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 18:49 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 19:00 ` Greg KH
2016-11-24 19:10 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 19:17 ` Greg KH
2016-11-25 9:52 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-25 13:32 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 0:27 ` Francois Romieu
2016-11-25 3:49 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 9:53 ` Greg KH
2016-11-25 12:34 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 12:41 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 14:22 ` Greg KH
2016-11-25 14:35 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 12:49 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 14:24 ` Greg KH
2016-11-25 16:58 ` David Miller
2016-11-30 11:58 ` Hayes Wang
2016-12-09 3:23 ` Hayes Wang
2016-12-09 13:05 ` Mark Lord
2017-01-01 0:07 ` Ansis Atteka
2017-01-03 0:40 ` Ansis Atteka
2017-01-03 13:19 ` Mark Lord
2017-01-09 7:58 ` Hayes Wang
2019-01-05 14:14 ` r8152: data corruption in various scenarios Mark Lord
2019-01-05 14:22 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-06 19:14 ` Kai Heng Feng
2019-01-06 21:13 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-06 21:16 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-07 3:53 ` Hayes Wang
2019-01-07 16:01 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-01-07 18:06 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-07 18:27 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-01-07 19:24 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-07 4:09 ` Kai Heng Feng
2019-01-07 4:13 ` Mark Lord
2019-01-07 6:46 ` Kai Heng Feng
2019-01-07 7:01 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 18:42 ` [PATCH net 1/2] r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable Greg KH
2016-11-24 18:58 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-25 6:31 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-25 6:51 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-25 12:35 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-24 16:19 ` David Miller
2016-11-24 12:37 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-11 7:15 ` [PATCH net 2/2] r8152: rx descriptor check Hayes Wang
2016-11-11 12:13 ` Francois Romieu
2016-11-12 13:21 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-14 6:43 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-15 1:10 ` Francois Romieu
2016-11-17 3:05 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-13 17:39 ` David Miller
2016-11-13 20:34 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-13 20:38 ` Mark Lord
2016-11-14 7:23 ` Hayes Wang
2016-11-14 17:27 ` David Miller
2016-11-14 7:03 ` Hayes Wang
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