On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 10:23 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 10:16 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > From: Pierre-Yves Kerbrat <pkerb...@kalray.eu> > > > > Descriptor rings were not initialized at zero when allocated > > When area contained garbage data, it caused skb_over_panic in > > e1000_clean_rx_irq (if data had E1000_RXD_STAT_DD bit set) > > > > This patch makes use of dma_zalloc_coherent to make sure the > > ring is memset at 0 to prevent the area from containing garbage. > > > > This looks like a net candidate, fixing a bug, with 0 chance adding a > regression IMO.
I am fine with that. Dave, let me know if you want me to re-submit this change for net/stable.
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