Commit 46fa0617 authored May 02, 2008 by Bruce Robson Committed by Jeff Garzik May 06, 2008

[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 <bns_robson@hotmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

parent 1daad055

drivers/net/eexpress.c

+6 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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);

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