Bug#448792: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64: bnx2 gives random errors in stats output

[Brandon L Black <blblack@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The bnx2 ethernet driver occasionally produces pseudorandom statistics
which can be seen in /proc/net/dev (such as rx byte counters
mysteriously jumping by ~ 2^60).  This is making things hard on our
network statistics graphing applications, as this causes them to report
incredibly enormous spikes of traffic that dwarf everything else in the
graphs by many orders of magnitude.

A patch to fix this has already gone into vanilla 2.6.22, and it's a
fairly small, trivial patch that looks like it would backport easily.

Any chance we can get this in an etch maintenance update of 2.6.18?

This is the patch that went into 2.6.22 from mchan@broadcom.com:

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2007/06/04/81

Thanks,
Brandon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 depends on:
ii  coreutil 5.97-5.3                        The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf  1.5.11                          Debian configuration management sy
ii  e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  initramf 0.85h                           tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-i 3.3-pre4-2                      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 recommends no packages.

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