From ae6e86b7fb15520ac64513ad643de63e0b077aa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Cochran Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:55:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] dp83640: drop PHY status frames in the driver. The dp83640 PHY provides time stamp and other information via special PHY status frames. Previously, the driver decoded the frames and then let the network stack drop them. This works fine when the PTP messages come over UDP. However, when receiving PTP messages via L2 packets, this creates a problem. The status frames use the official PTP destination MAC address, and so they are delivered to user space along with the "real" frames, causing confusion for applications. This commit fixes the issue by simply dropping the PHY status frames in the driver. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c index ead323e56739..2cd8dc5847b4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c @@ -1044,8 +1044,8 @@ static bool dp83640_rxtstamp(struct phy_device *phydev, if (is_status_frame(skb, type)) { decode_status_frame(dp83640, skb); - /* Let the stack drop this frame. */ - return false; + kfree_skb(skb); + return true; } SKB_PTP_TYPE(skb) = type;