| To: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] emac: filter illegal frame sizes |
| From: | Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:29:18 -0700 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linuxppc-embedded@xxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <4216FD64.9020509@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:48:36AM -0500 |
| References: | <20050218101245.D11439@cox.net> <4216FD64.9020509@pobox.com> |
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:48:36AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matt Porter wrote: > > Fix to drop frames that are too large for the current MTU. > > What is this fixing? > > You should be passing all frames up to the software stack. I was originally fixing the issue where the driver was only allocating rx buffers big enough for the configured MTU and got a bit overzealous. I pulled out the filtering hunks so we always allocate skbs large enough to handle a full size jumbo frame and pass everything up to the stack...new patch to follow. -Matt |
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