[kernel] Linux v3.6-rc4-53-g5b716ac

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 5 12:25:24 UTC 2012


commit 4755af6ee497e2034540cde0798f7325ed3935f7
Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 5 08:24:45 2012 -0400

    Linux v3.6-rc4-53-g5b716ac
    
    - Add patch to fix ibmveth issue from Santiago Leon (rhbz 852842)

 ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel.spec                                 |   14 ++++-
 sources                                     |    1 +
 3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch b/ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79353a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+This patch fixes a bug found by Nish Aravamudan 
+(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/15/220) where the driver is not following
+the spec (it is not aligning the rx buffer on a 16-byte boundary) and the
+hypervisor aborts the registration, making the device unusable. 
+
+The fix follows BenH's recommendation (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/461)
+to replace the kmalloc+map for a single call to dma_alloc_coherent()
+because that function always aligns to a 16-byte boundary.
+
+The stable trees will run into this bug whenever the rx buffer kmalloc call
+returns something not aligned on a 16-byte boundary.
+
+Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+---
+ ibmveth.c |   26 +++++++++-----------------
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c	2012-07-09 16:00:53.000000000 -0400
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c	2012-08-17 19:51:02.840000188 -0400
+@@ -472,14 +472,9 @@ static void ibmveth_cleanup(struct ibmve
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if (adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr != NULL) {
+-		if (!dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma)) {
+-			dma_unmap_single(dev,
+-					adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma,
+-					adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
+-					DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+-			adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = DMA_ERROR_CODE;
+-		}
+-		kfree(adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr);
++		dma_free_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
++				  adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr,
++				  adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma);
+ 		adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = NULL;
+ 	}
+ 
+@@ -556,10 +551,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic
+ 		goto err_out;
+ 	}
+ 
++	dev = &adapter->vdev->dev;
++
+ 	adapter->rx_queue.queue_len = sizeof(struct ibmveth_rx_q_entry) *
+ 						rxq_entries;
+-	adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr = kmalloc(adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
+-						GFP_KERNEL);
++	adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr =
++	    dma_alloc_coherent(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_len,
++			       &adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
+ 
+ 	if (!adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr) {
+ 		netdev_err(netdev, "unable to allocate rx queue pages\n");
+@@ -567,19 +565,13 @@ static int ibmveth_open(struct net_devic
+ 		goto err_out;
+ 	}
+ 
+-	dev = &adapter->vdev->dev;
+-
+ 	adapter->buffer_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
+ 			adapter->buffer_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+ 	adapter->filter_list_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
+ 			adapter->filter_list_addr, 4096, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+-	adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma = dma_map_single(dev,
+-			adapter->rx_queue.queue_addr,
+-			adapter->rx_queue.queue_len, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+ 
+ 	if ((dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->buffer_list_dma)) ||
+-	    (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma)) ||
+-	    (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->rx_queue.queue_dma))) {
++	    (dma_mapping_error(dev, adapter->filter_list_dma))) {
+ 		netdev_err(netdev, "unable to map filter or buffer list "
+ 			   "pages\n");
+ 		rc = -ENOMEM;
+
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diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index a157e0e..b70854f 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # For non-released -rc kernels, this will be appended after the rcX and
 # gitX tags, so a 3 here would become part of release "0.rcX.gitX.3"
 #
-%global baserelease 2
+%global baserelease 1
 %global fedora_build %{baserelease}
 
 # base_sublevel is the kernel version we're starting with and patching
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # The rc snapshot level
 %define rcrev 4
 # The git snapshot level
-%define gitrev 0
+%define gitrev 1
 # Set rpm version accordingly
 %define rpmversion 3.%{upstream_sublevel}.0
 %endif
@@ -756,6 +756,9 @@ Patch22066: virtio-scsi-Initialize-scatterlist-structure.patch
 #rhbz 846037
 Patch22067: selinux-Fix-sel_netnode_insert-suspicious-rcu-dereference.patch
 
+#rhbz 852842
+Patch22068: ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
+
 Patch30000: 0001-ALSA-snd-usb-Fix-URB-cancellation-at-stream-start.patch
 
 # END OF PATCH DEFINITIONS
@@ -1457,6 +1460,9 @@ ApplyPatch virtio-scsi-Initialize-scatterlist-structure.patch
 #rhbz 846037
 ApplyPatch selinux-Fix-sel_netnode_insert-suspicious-rcu-dereference.patch
 
+#rhbz 852842
+ApplyPatch ibmveth-Fix-alignment-of-rx-queue-bug.patch
+
 ApplyPatch 0001-ALSA-snd-usb-Fix-URB-cancellation-at-stream-start.patch
 
 # END OF PATCH APPLICATIONS
@@ -2321,6 +2327,10 @@ fi
 #                 ||----w |
 #                 ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 05 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.0-0.rc4.git1.1
+- Linux v3.6-rc4-53-g5b716ac
+- Add patch to fix ibmveth issue from Santiago Leon (rhbz 852842)
+
 * Wed Sep 05 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.0-0.rc4.git0.2
 - Reenable debugging options.
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 6d42899..0c7e616 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 24153eaaa81dedc9481ada8cd9c3b83d  linux-3.5.tar.xz
 85a05f267b2a883d0a444f3f2f91ec0b  patch-3.6-rc4.xz
+2f77d7e0612827bbcc097bcadf43a1ee  patch-3.6-rc4-git1.xz


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