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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: fix random memory scribbling bug
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:56:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43ADA7D0.9010908@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512241145520.14098@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>Of course, on the alloc path, it seems to add an additional 
>"NV_RX_ALLOC_PAD" thing, so maybe the "end-data" thing makes sense.
>
>  
>
The problem is the pci_unmap_single() call that happens during 
nv_close() or the rx interrupt handler. I think it makes more sense to 
rely on fields in the individual skb instead of reading from 
np->rx_buf_sz. If np->rx_buf_sz changes inbetween, then we have a memory 
leak.

--
    Manfred

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-24 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-24 13:19 [PATCH] forcedeth: fix random memory scribbling bug Manfred Spraul
2005-12-24 15:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 16:08   ` Manfred Spraul
2005-12-24 16:08   ` Manfred Spraul
2005-12-24 19:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-24 19:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-24 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-24 19:56   ` Manfred Spraul
2005-12-24 19:56   ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2005-12-24 20:41     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-24 21:06       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 21:20         ` Francois Romieu
2005-12-24 21:06       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 20:41     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-24 19:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 19:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-24 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds

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