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+Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
+From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
+Newsgroups: gmane.linux.network
+Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ibmveth: Fix issue with DMA mapping failure
+Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:41:04 +1000
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+Message-ID: <20110908004121.669225190@samba.org>
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+To: Santiago Leon <santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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+descs[].fields.address is 32bit which truncates any dma mapping
+errors so dma_mapping_error() fails to catch it.
+
+Use a dma_addr_t to do the comparison. With this patch I was able
+to transfer many gigabytes of data with IOMMU fault injection set
+at 10% probability.
+
+Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
+Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v2.6.37+
+---
+
+Index: linux-build/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
+===================================================================
+--- linux-build.orig/drivers/net/ibmveth.c 2011-09-01 15:01:18.066844039 +1000
++++ linux-build/drivers/net/ibmveth.c 2011-09-01 15:03:34.299079796 +1000
+@@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ibmveth_start_xmit(st
+ union ibmveth_buf_desc descs[6];
+ int last, i;
+ int force_bounce = 0;
++ dma_addr_t dma_addr;
+
+ /*
+ * veth handles a maximum of 6 segments including the header, so
+@@ -994,17 +995,16 @@ retry_bounce:
+ }
+
+ /* Map the header */
+- descs[0].fields.address = dma_map_single(&adapter->vdev->dev, skb->data,
+- skb_headlen(skb),
+- DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+- if (dma_mapping_error(&adapter->vdev->dev, descs[0].fields.address))
++ dma_addr = dma_map_single(&adapter->vdev->dev, skb->data,
++ skb_headlen(skb), DMA_TO_DEVICE);
++ if (dma_mapping_error(&adapter->vdev->dev, dma_addr))
+ goto map_failed;
+
+ descs[0].fields.flags_len = desc_flags | skb_headlen(skb);
++ descs[0].fields.address = dma_addr;
+
+ /* Map the frags */
+ for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
+- unsigned long dma_addr;
+ skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
+
+ dma_addr = dma_map_page(&adapter->vdev->dev, frag->page,
+
+