[v1 PATCH] ucc_geth: fix ethtool set ring param bug

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 09:43 +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:
[...]
> -	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");
> +		u16 rx_t;
> +		u16 tx_t;
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Stopping interface %s.\n", netdev->name);
> +		ucc_geth_close(netdev);
> +
> +		rx_t = ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue];
> +		tx_t = ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue];
> +
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue] = ring->rx_pending;
> +		ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue] = ring->tx_pending;
> +
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "Reactivating interface %s.\n", netdev->name);
> +		ret = ucc_geth_open(netdev);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "uec_set_ringparam: set ring param for running"
> +					" interface %s failed. Please try to make the interface "
> +					" down, then try again.\n", netdev->name);
> +			ug_info->bdRingLenRx[queue] = rx_t;
> +			ug_info->bdRingLenTx[queue] = tx_t;
> +		}
[...]

Bringing the interface down will call ucc_geth_close(), which will try
to free resources that have not been allocated!

If you cannot roll back a failed change then at least use dev_close()
and dev_open() rather than calling ucc_geth_{close,open}() directly, so
that the interface state is updated correctly.  Or just refuse to make
the change if the interface is up.

Ben.

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