diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
index c68fe495d3f9..4244b9d4418e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -914,7 +914,9 @@ vmxnet3_copy_hdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vmxnet3_tx_queue *tq,
 {
 	struct Vmxnet3_TxDataDesc *tdd;
 
-	tdd = tq->data_ring.base + tq->tx_ring.next2fill;
+	tdd = (struct Vmxnet3_TxDataDesc *)((u8 *)tq->data_ring.base +
+					    tq->tx_ring.next2fill *
+					    tq->txdata_desc_size);
 
 	memcpy(tdd->data, skb->data, ctx->copy_size);
 	netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev,
diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
index 74fc03072b87..7dc37a090549 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@
 /*
  * Version numbers
  */
-#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING   "1.4.9.0-k"
+#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING   "1.4.a.0-k"
 
 /* a 32-bit int, each byte encode a verion number in VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION */
-#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM      0x01040900
+#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM      0x01040a00
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_PCI_MSI)
 	/* RSS only makes sense if MSI-X is supported. */