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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c index c58ed26d85af..dfff4416cf4b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c @@ -3468,6 +3468,13 @@ static void e1000_initialize_hw_bits_ich8lan(struct e1000_hw *hw) */ reg = er32(RFCTL); reg |= (E1000_RFCTL_NFSW_DIS | E1000_RFCTL_NFSR_DIS); + + /* + * Disable IPv6 extension header parsing because some malformed + * IPv6 headers can hang the Rx. + */ + if (hw->mac.type == e1000_ich8lan) + reg |= (E1000_RFCTL_IPV6_EX_DIS | E1000_RFCTL_NEW_IPV6_EXT_DIS); ew32(RFCTL, reg); } |