[PATCH] ucc_geth: fix ethtool set ring param bug

Ben Hutchings bhutchings at solarflare.com
Wed Sep 1 00:41:22 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:47 +0800, Liang Li wrote:
> It's common sense that when we should do change to driver ring
> desc/buffer etc only after 'stop/shutdown' the device. When we
> do change while devices/driver is running, kernel oops occur:
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ucc_geth_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ucc_geth_ethtool.c
> index 6f92e48..1b37aaa 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ucc_geth_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ucc_geth_ethtool.c
> @@ -255,13 +255,18 @@ uec_set_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> -	ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue] = ring->rx_pending;
> -	ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue] = ring->tx_pending;
> -
>  	if (netif_running(netdev)) {
> -		/* FIXME: restart automatically */
> -		printk(KERN_INFO
> -			"Please re-open the interface.\n");
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Stopping interface %s.\n", netdev->name);
> +		ucc_geth_close(netdev);
> +
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue] = ring->rx_pending;
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue] = ring->tx_pending;
> +
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Reactivating interface %s.\n", netdev->name);
> +		ucc_geth_open(netdev);

What if ucc_geth_open() fails?

Ben.

> +	} else {
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue] = ring->rx_pending;
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue] = ring->tx_pending;
>  	}
>  
>  	return ret;

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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