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authorMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>2016-05-11 22:02:26 +0100
committerMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>2016-05-11 23:02:10 +0100
commit6164741f81fbb80d25ba3877251f4b31de3ed6a0 (patch)
treeffa86f6ffa6c484d695a0557ef786bc98811c5c9
parent47931a4de53ccdeda061c59aa0919f152cf0dfdf (diff)
downloadipxe-6164741f81fbb80d25ba3877251f4b31de3ed6a0.tar.gz
[efi] Guard against GetStatus() failing to return a NULL TX buffer
The UEFI specification requires the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL GetStatus() method to set TxBuf to NULL if there are no transmit buffers to recycle. Some implementations (observed with Lan9118Dxe in EDK2) fill in TxBuf only when there is a transmit buffer to recycle, which leads to large numbers of "spurious TX completion" errors. Work around this problem by initialising TxBuf to NULL before calling the GetStatus() method. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
-rw-r--r--src/drivers/net/efi/snpnet.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/drivers/net/efi/snpnet.c b/src/drivers/net/efi/snpnet.c
index 0d876b636..88474b0be 100644
--- a/src/drivers/net/efi/snpnet.c
+++ b/src/drivers/net/efi/snpnet.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static void snpnet_poll_tx ( struct net_device *netdev ) {
int rc;
/* Get status */
+ txbuf = NULL;
if ( ( efirc = snp->snp->GetStatus ( snp->snp, &irq, &txbuf ) ) != 0 ) {
rc = -EEFI ( efirc );
DBGC ( snp, "SNP %s could not get status: %s\n",