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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipheth: Properly distinguish length and alignment in URBs and skbs
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 18:49:25 +0100

> The USB protocol this driver implements appears to require 2 bytes of
> padding in front of each received packet. This used to be equal to
> the value of NET_IP_ALIGN on x86, so the driver abused that constant
> and mostly worked, but this is no longer the case. The driver also
> mixed up the URB and packet lengths, resulting in 2 bytes of junk at
> the end of the skb.
>
> Introduce a private constant for the 2 bytes of padding; fix this
> confusion and check for the under-length case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> ---
> Compile-tested only, as I'm not cool enough for an iPhone either.
> This is applicable to net-next-2.6 or v2.6.38.

I've applied this to net-2.6 and will conditionally queue it up for
-stable, if we need further fixups we can add relative patches.

Thanks.


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