qlcnic: fix Tx descriptor corruption on 82xx devices
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1801900 [ Upstream commit c333fa0c ] In regular NIC transmission flow, driver always configures MAC using Tx queue zero descriptor as a part of MAC learning flow. But with multi Tx queue supported NIC, regular transmission can occur on any non-zero Tx queue and from that context it uses Tx queue zero descriptor to configure MAC, at the same time TX queue zero could be used by another CPU for regular transmission which could lead to Tx queue zero descriptor corruption and cause FW abort. This patch fixes this in such a way that driver always configures learned MAC address from the same Tx queue which is used for regular transmission. Fixes: 7e2cf4fe ("qlcnic: change driver hardware interface mechanism") Signed-off-by: Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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