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As soon as the driver is finished with a receive buffer it allocs a new
one and overwrites the corresponding RRA entry with a new buffer pointer.
Problem is, the buffer pointer is split across two word-sized registers.
It can't be updated in one atomic store. So this operation races with the
chip while it stores received packets and advances its RRP register.
This could result in memory corruption by a DMA write.
Avoid this problem by adding buffers only at the location given by the
RWP register, in accordance with the National Semiconductor datasheet.
Re-factor this code into separate functions to calculate a RRA pointer
and to update the RWP.
Fixes: efcce839360f ("[PATCH] macsonic/jazzsonic network drivers update")
Tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.