Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2011-10-08

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-10-06 19:43:16
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From: Sasha Levin <redacted>
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 <redacted>
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 <redacted>
Applied to net-next
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