From 46fa06170d59b6b9951d09354829d85090f0d911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Robson Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:40:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [netdrvr] eexpress: IPv6 fails - multicast problems Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10577 I was unable to access a computer containing an Intel EtherExpress 16 network card using IPv6. I traced this to failure of neighbour discovery. When I used an "ip -6 neigh add" command, on the computer attempting access, to insert a binding between the IPv6 address of the computer with the Intel EtherExpress 16 network card and the card's ethernet address, I was able to access that computer using IPv6. Neighbour discovery requires working multicast. The driver sources file eexpress.c contains an approximately 30 line function eexp_setup_filter used when loading multicast addresses. I found 3 problems in this function 1) It wrote the number of multicast addresses to the card instead of the number of bytes in the multicast addresses. 2) When loading multiple multicast addresses it loaded the first one provided multiple times instead of loading each one once. 3) The setting of pointer 'data' from 'dmi->dmi_addr' occured before the test for the error situation of 'dmi' being NULL. Correcting these problems allows the computer with the Intel EtherExpress 16 network card to found by IPv6 neighbour discovery. p.s. There is some information on the Intel EtherExpress 16 at http://www.intel.com/support/etherexpress/vintage/sb/cs-013500.htm Datasheet for the Intel 82586 ethernet controller used by the card http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/8/2/5/8/82586.shtml Signed-off-by: Bruce Robson Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/eexpress.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/eexpress.c b/drivers/net/eexpress.c index 2eb82ab..795c594 100644 --- a/drivers/net/eexpress.c +++ b/drivers/net/eexpress.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static unsigned short start_code[] = { 0x0000,Cmd_MCast, 0x0076, /* link to next command */ #define CONF_NR_MULTICAST 0x44 - 0x0000, /* number of multicast addresses */ + 0x0000, /* number of bytes in multicast address(es) */ #define CONF_MULTICAST 0x46 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, /* some addresses */ 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ static void eexp_hw_init586(struct net_device *dev) static void eexp_setup_filter(struct net_device *dev) { - struct dev_mc_list *dmi = dev->mc_list; + struct dev_mc_list *dmi; unsigned short ioaddr = dev->base_addr; int count = dev->mc_count; int i; @@ -1580,9 +1580,9 @@ static void eexp_setup_filter(struct net_device *dev) } outw(CONF_NR_MULTICAST & ~31, ioaddr+SM_PTR); - outw(count, ioaddr+SHADOW(CONF_NR_MULTICAST)); - for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { - unsigned short *data = (unsigned short *)dmi->dmi_addr; + outw(6*count, ioaddr+SHADOW(CONF_NR_MULTICAST)); + for (i = 0, dmi = dev->mc_list; i < count; i++, dmi = dmi->next) { + unsigned short *data; if (!dmi) { printk(KERN_INFO "%s: too few multicast addresses\n", dev->name); break; @@ -1591,6 +1591,7 @@ static void eexp_setup_filter(struct net_device *dev) printk(KERN_INFO "%s: invalid multicast address length given.\n", dev->name); continue; } + data = (unsigned short *)dmi->dmi_addr; outw((CONF_MULTICAST+(6*i)) & ~31, ioaddr+SM_PTR); outw(data[0], ioaddr+SHADOW(CONF_MULTICAST+(6*i))); outw((CONF_MULTICAST+(6*i)+2) & ~31, ioaddr+SM_PTR); -- 2.7.4