When the driver cannot map a TX buffer, instead of rolling back gracefully and retrying later, we currently get a panic:
[ 159.885994] igb 0000:00:00.0: TX DMA map failed [ 159.886588] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff00000a08c7a8 ... [ 159.897031] PC is at igb_xmit_frame_ring+0x9c8/0xcb8 Fix the erroneous test that leads to this situation. Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.bruc...@arm.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index fd4a46b03cc8..ea69af267d63 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -5326,7 +5326,7 @@ static int igb_tx_map(struct igb_ring *tx_ring, DMA_TO_DEVICE); dma_unmap_len_set(tx_buffer, len, 0); - if (i--) + if (i-- == 0) i += tx_ring->count; tx_buffer = &tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i]; } -- 2.13.3