Rather than just transmitting garbage past the end of the small
packet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
--

v2. Use eth_skb_pad (wrapper around skb_put_padto)
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
index 84ae800..739916d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
@@ -630,11 +630,17 @@ static void ftgmac100_tx_complete(struct ftgmac100 *priv)
 static int ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
                                     struct net_device *netdev)
 {
-       unsigned int len = (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) ? ETH_ZLEN : skb->len;
        struct ftgmac100 *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
        struct ftgmac100_txdes *txdes;
        dma_addr_t map;
 
+       /* The HW doesn't pad small frames */
+       if (eth_skb_pad(skb)) {
+               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");
@@ -655,7 +661,7 @@ static int ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
        /* setup TX descriptor */
        ftgmac100_txdes_set_skb(txdes, skb);
        ftgmac100_txdes_set_dma_addr(txdes, map);
-       ftgmac100_txdes_set_buffer_size(txdes, len);
+       ftgmac100_txdes_set_buffer_size(txdes, skb->len);
 
        ftgmac100_txdes_set_first_segment(txdes);
        ftgmac100_txdes_set_last_segment(txdes);
-- 
2.9.3

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