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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c index 467d41698fd5..549ad2018e7f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c @@ -1330,6 +1330,19 @@ static netdev_tx_t ravb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) buffer = PTR_ALIGN(priv->tx_align[q], DPTR_ALIGN) + entry / NUM_TX_DESC * DPTR_ALIGN; len = PTR_ALIGN(skb->data, DPTR_ALIGN) - skb->data; + /* Zero length DMA descriptors are problematic as they seem to + * terminate DMA transfers. Avoid them by simply using a length of + * DPTR_ALIGN (4) when skb data is aligned to DPTR_ALIGN. + * + * As skb is guaranteed to have at least ETH_ZLEN (60) bytes of + * data by the call to skb_put_padto() above this is safe with + * respect to both the length of the first DMA descriptor (len) + * overflowing the available data and the length of the second DMA + * descriptor (skb->len - len) being negative. + */ + if (len == 0) + len = DPTR_ALIGN; + memcpy(buffer, skb->data, len); dma_addr = dma_map_single(ndev->dev.parent, buffer, len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); if (dma_mapping_error(ndev->dev.parent, dma_addr)) |