sunvnet: improve error handling when a remote crashes

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If a remote machine crashes while there are pending transmit buffers, the
sunvnet driver reallocates the ring descriptors giving us enries that have
state VIO_DESC_FREE but also an allocated skb. This results in a BUG_ON()
call when the remote reboots and we reach that point in the ring.

This patch:

1) clears pending tx packets in the ring on port reset
2) changes a BUG_ON() to a pr_warn() when a remote host has given us an invalid
	descriptor state
3) collapses multiple active buffer frees in a ring to a single message per
	ring and adds the device name and remote MAC address

This fixes the particular problem of not cleaning up pending buffers on a
reset, but also prevents us from crashing if the remote handles descriptors
out of order or sets an unexpected state for a descriptor.

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <david.stevens@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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David L Stevens 2015-01-26 15:54:27 -05:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c

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