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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c index 7b02e87b0b65..98632f4561b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/82571.c @@ -1279,6 +1279,16 @@ static void e1000_initialize_hw_bits_82571(struct e1000_hw *hw) ew32(CTRL_EXT, reg); } + /* + * Disable IPv6 extension header parsing because some malformed + * IPv6 headers can hang the Rx. + */ + if (hw->mac.type <= e1000_82573) { + reg = er32(RFCTL); + reg |= (E1000_RFCTL_IPV6_EX_DIS | E1000_RFCTL_NEW_IPV6_EXT_DIS); + ew32(RFCTL, reg); + } + /* PCI-Ex Control Registers */ switch (hw->mac.type) { case e1000_82574: |