Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:42:57 +0200 | | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb |
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:19:51PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:40:54 +0300 > > > This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list > > of pages is small enough to fit into a skb. > > > > If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't > > go ahead building skbs anyway since we won't be able to send the buffer as > > the user requested. > > > > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> > > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> > > Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> > > Michael, tell me what's happening with these two virtio-net bug fixes. > > Thanks.
Thanks for the reminder. They are more enhancements than bugfixes, in that both help debug buggy hypervisors. So net-next material. Patch 1 is ok patch 2 would benefit from a slightly clearer comment.
-- MST
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