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Merge branch 'asix-rx-mem-handling' Mark Craske says: ==================== Improve ASIX RX memory allocation error handling The ASIX RX handler algorithm is weak on error handling. There is a design flaw in the ASIX RX handler algorithm because the implementation for handling RX Ethernet frames for the DUB-E100 C1 can have Ethernet frames spanning multiple URBs. This means that payload data from more than 1 URB is sometimes needed to fill the socket buffer with a complete Ethernet frame. When the URB with the start of an Ethernet frame is received then an attempt is made to allocate a socket buffer. If the memory allocation fails then the algorithm sets the buffer pointer member to NULL and the function exits (no crash yet). Subsequently, the RX hander is called again to process the next URB which assumes there is a socket buffer available and the kernel crashes when there is no buffer. This patchset implements an improvement to the RX handling algorithm to avoid a crash when no memory is available for the socket buffer. The patchset will apply cleanly to the net-next master branch but the created kernel has not been tested. The driver was tested on ARM kernels v3.8 and v3.14 for a commercial product. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
