Rather than just transmitting garbage past the end of the small
packet.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
index 6c71726..3f2172f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
@@ -636,6 +636,13 @@ static int ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct ftgmac100_txdes *txdes;
dma_addr_t map;
+ /* The HW doesn't pad small frames */
+ if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN) < 0) {
+ netdev->stats.tx_dropped++;
+ return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ }
+
+ /* Reject oversize packets */
if (unlikely(skb->len > MAX_PKT_SIZE)) {
if (net_ratelimit())
netdev_dbg(netdev, "tx packet too big\n");
--
2.9.3