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2009-06-11wimax/i2400m: fix oops when the TX FIFO fills up due to a missing checkInaky Perez-Gonzalez
When the TX FIFO filled up and i2400m_tx_new() failed to allocate a new TX message header, a missing check for said condition was causing a kernel oops when trying to dereference a NULL i2400m->tx_msg pointer. Found and diagnosed by Cindy H. Kao. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11wimax/i2400m: fix panic due to missed corner cases on tail_room calculationInaky Perez-Gonzalez
i2400m_tx_skip_tail() needs to handle the special case of being called when the tail room that is left over in the FIFO is zero. This happens when a TX message header was opened at the very end of the FIFO (without payloads). The i2400m_tx_close() code already marked said TX message (header) to be skipped and this function should be doing nothing. It is called anyway because it is part of a common "corner case" path handling which takes care of more cases than only this one. The tail room computation was also improved to take care of the case when tx_in is at the end of the buffer boundary; tail_room has to be modded (%) to the buffer size. To do that in a single well-documented place, __i2400m_tx_tail_room() is introduced and used. Treat i2400m->tx_in == 0 as a corner case and handle it accordingly. Found and diagnosed by Cindy H. Kao. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11wimax/i2400m: fix panic/warnings caused by missed check on empty TX messageInaky Perez-Gonzalez
In some situations, when a new TX message header is started, there might be no space for data payloads. In this case the message is left with zero payloads and the i2400m_tx_close() function has just to mark it as "to skip". If it tries to go ahead it will overwrite things because there is no space to add padding as defined by the bus-specific layer. This can cause buffer overruns and in some stress cases, panics. Found and diagnosed by Cindy H. Kao. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11wimax/i2400m: rename misleading I2400M_PL_PAD to I2400M_PL_ALIGNInaky Perez-Gonzalez
The constant is being use as an alignment factor, not as a padding factor; made reading/reviewing the code quite confusing. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11wimax/i2400m: don't call netif_start_queue() in _tx_msg_sent()Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Reported and fixed by Cindy H Kao. When the device is stopped __i2400m_dev_stop() stops the network queue. However, when this is done in the middle of heavy network operation, when the bus-specific subdriver is still wrapping up and it reports a sent TX transaction with _tx_msg_sent() right after the device was stopped, the queue was being started again, which was causing a stream of oopsen and finally a panic. In any case, said call has no place there. It's a left over from an early implementation that was discarded later on. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-07i2400m: RX and TX data/control pathsInaky Perez-Gonzalez
Handling of TX/RX data to/from the i2400m device (IP packets, control and diagnostics). On RX, this parses the received read transaction from the device, breaks it in chunks and passes it to the corresponding subsystems (network and control). Transmission to the device is done through a software FIFO, as data/control frames can be coalesced (while the device is reading the previous tx transaction, others accumulate). A FIFO is used because at the end it is resource-cheaper that scatter/gather over USB. As well, most traffic is going to be download (vs upload). Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>