From 6052ae1676b705c67133542e663ec3380f032e2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sreenivasa Honnur <Sreenivasa.Honnur@neterion.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:15:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] vxge: Removed the code to bounds check the mss value
- Removed the code to bounds check the mss value. The hardware does bounds checking and
will not allow an oversized mss to lockup the transmit path.
Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c | 5 -----
drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
index dd2add1d7566c..cda18f815c3a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
@@ -817,7 +817,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
u64 dma_pointer;
struct vxge_tx_priv *txdl_priv = NULL;
struct __vxge_hw_fifo *fifo_hw;
- u32 max_mss = 0x0;
int offload_type;
unsigned long flags = 0;
int vpath_no = 0;
@@ -969,10 +968,6 @@ vxge_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
int mss = vxge_tcp_mss(skb);
if (mss) {
- max_mss = dev->mtu + ETH_HLEN -
- VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE;
- if (mss > max_mss)
- mss = max_mss;
vxge_debug_tx(VXGE_TRACE,
"%s: %s:%d mss = %d",
dev->name, __func__, __LINE__, mss);
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
index 7567a1140d073..8260b91fd7951 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-traffic.h
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
VXGE_HW_HEADER_VLAN_SIZE + \
VXGE_HW_HEADER_SNAP_SIZE)
-#define VXGE_HW_TCPIP_HEADER_MAX_SIZE (64 + 64)
-
/* 32bit alignments */
#define VXGE_HW_HEADER_ETHERNET_II_802_3_ALIGN 2
#define VXGE_HW_HEADER_802_2_SNAP_ALIGN 2
--
2.30.2