From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tuntap: orphan frags before trying to set tx timestamp
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:59:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522855EA.1030807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52273525.7090501@cogentembedded.com>
On 09/04/2013 09:27 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 04-09-2013 8:33, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>> sock_tx_timestamp() will clear all zerocopy flags of skb which may
>> lead the
>> frags never to be orphaned. This will break guest to guest traffic
>> when zerocopy
>> is enabled. Fix this by orphaning the frags before trying to set tx
>> time stamp.
>
>> The issue were introduced by commit
>> eda297729171fe16bf34fe5b0419dfb69060f623
>> (tun: Support software transmit time stamping).
>
>> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/tun.c | 9 +++++----
>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> index 2dddb1b..af9a096 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> @@ -749,15 +749,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff
>> *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>> >= dev->tx_queue_len / tun->numqueues)
>> goto drop;
>>
>> + /* Orphan the skb - required as we might hang on to it
>> + * for indefinite time. */
>
> You could fix the comment style to the networking code default,
> while at: it:
>
> /* bla
> * bla
> */
>
>> + if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
>> + goto drop;
>> +
>> if (skb->sk) {
>> sock_tx_timestamp(skb->sk, &skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags);
>> sw_tx_timestamp(skb);
>> }
>>
>> - /* Orphan the skb - required as we might hang on to it
>> - * for indefinite time. */
>> - if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
>> - goto drop;
>
> WBR, Sergei
>
>
>
Sure will post V2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 4:33 [PATCH net-next 1/2] tuntap: purge socket error queue on detach Jason Wang
2013-09-04 4:33 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] tuntap: orphan frags before trying to set tx timestamp Jason Wang
2013-09-04 13:27 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-05 9:59 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2013-09-04 15:57 ` Richard Cochran
2013-09-04 15:56 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] tuntap: purge socket error queue on detach Richard Cochran
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=522855EA.1030807@redhat.com \
--to=jasowang@redhat.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=richardcochran@gmail.com \
--cc=sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.