Re: PATCH: Re: Memory corruption in 8390.c ? (and hp100 xirc2ps smc9194 ....)

[Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:59:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.17/drivers/net/8390.c linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/8390.c
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.17/drivers/net/8390.c	2006-06-19 17:17:32.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/8390.c	2006-06-21 17:41:12.007145384 +0100
> @@ -275,12 +275,14 @@
>  	struct ei_device *ei_local = (struct ei_device *) netdev_priv(dev);
>  	int send_length = skb->len, output_page;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> +	char buf[ETH_ZLEN];
> +	char *data = skb->data;
>  
>  	if (skb->len < ETH_ZLEN) {
> -		skb = skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN);
> -		if (skb == NULL)
> -			return 0;
> +		memset(buf, 0, ETH_ZLEN);	/* more efficient than doing just the needed bits */
> +		memcpy(buf, data, ETH_ZLEN);
                                  ^^^^^^^^
send_length surely?

>  		send_length = ETH_ZLEN;
> +		data = buf;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Mask interrupts from the ethercard. 

  OG.
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