From: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:11:27 +0100
>> >> if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) {
>> >> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n");
>> >> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memory for DMA buffer\n");
>> >> goto err_nomem;
>> >> }
>> >> memset(ring_header->desc, 0, ring_header->size);
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > So this memset() will really require a different patch to get removed ?
>> >
>> > Sigh, not sure why I review patches.
>>
>> Agreed, please use dma_zalloc_coherent() and kill that memset().
>
> Ok, updated. I'll also add cc: stable, because it makes notebooks with
> affected chipset unusable.
Networking patches do not use CC: stable, instead you simply ask me
to queue it up and then I batch submit networking fixes to -stable
periodically myself.
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