e1000e: fix packet corruption and tx hang during NFSv2

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when receiving a particular type of NFS v2 UDP traffic, the hardware could
DMA some bad data and then hang, possibly corrupting memory.

Disable the NFS parsing in this hardware, verified to fix the bug.

Originally reported and reproduced by RedHat's Neil Horman
CC: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Jesse Brandeburg 2010-03-05 02:21:44 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/e1000e/defines.h

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drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c

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