qlcnic: fix Tx descriptor corruption on 82xx devices
authorShahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@cavium.com>
Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:41:10 +0000 (12:41 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:16:18 +0000 (09:16 +0200)
commit0d5b9edea99531145d4cade061ad6c7238654c48
treefbefa57ddc40918f7fd19d28ed10c08d45082217
parent133aea0f2108f5c3b68a621f20caf275f7e90e64
qlcnic: fix Tx descriptor corruption on 82xx devices

[ Upstream commit c333fa0c4f220f8f7ea5acd6b0ebf3bf13fd684d ]

In regular NIC transmission flow, driver always configures MAC using
Tx queue zero descriptor as a part of MAC learning flow.
But with multi Tx queue supported NIC, regular transmission can occur on
any non-zero Tx queue and from that context it uses
Tx queue zero descriptor to configure MAC, at the same time TX queue
zero could be used by another CPU for regular transmission
which could lead to Tx queue zero descriptor corruption and cause FW
abort.

This patch fixes this in such a way that driver always configures
learned MAC address from the same Tx queue which is used for
regular transmission.

Fixes: 7e2cf4feba05 ("qlcnic: change driver hardware interface mechanism")
Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_hw.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c