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ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes 

The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was
poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This
fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing
the valid descriptors on clean ring operation.

Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
wifi-calibration
Sathya Narayanan 2008-07-01 10:58:05 +02:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent 7732123379
commit ab9b30cc3e
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drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
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@ -2719,6 +2719,8 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev,
/* Clean rings */
memset(dev->tx_desc, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor));
memset(dev->rx_desc, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor));
memset(dev->tx_skb, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *));
memset(dev->rx_skb, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *));
/* Attach to ZMII, if needed */
if (emac_has_feature(dev, EMAC_FTR_HAS_ZMII) &&