Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: bcmgenet: use hardware padding of runt frames

[David Miller]

From: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:14:52 -0700

> Now that scatter-gather and tx-checksumming are enabled by default
> it revealed a packet corruption issue that can occur for very short
> fragmented packets.
> 
> When padding these frames to the minimum length it is possible for
> the non-linear (fragment) data to be added to the end of the linear
> header in an SKB. Since the number of fragments is read before the
> padding and used afterward without reloading, the fragment that
> should have been consumed can be tacked on in place of part of the
> padding.
> 
> The third commit in this set corrects this by removing the software
> padding and allowing the hardware to add the pad bytes if necessary.
> 
> The first two commits resolve warnings observed by the kbuild test
> robot and are included here for simplicity of application.

Series applied, thank you.