From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipa: compute proper aggregation limit
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YpobFgEcdslfDAq2@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220603123024.27609-1-elder@linaro.org>
On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 07:30:22AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> commit c5794097b269f15961ed78f7f27b50e51766dec9 upstream.
>
> The aggregation byte limit for an endpoint is currently computed
> based on the endpoint's receive buffer size.
>
> However, some bytes at the front of each receive buffer are reserved
> on the assumption that--as with SKBs--it might be useful to insert
> data (such as headers) before what lands in the buffer.
>
> The aggregation byte limit currently doesn't take into account that
> reserved space, and as a result, aggregation could require space
> past that which is available in the buffer.
>
> Fix this by reducing the size used to compute the aggregation byte
> limit by the NET_SKB_PAD offset reserved for each receive buffer.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
> Fixes: 84f9bd12d46db ("soc: qcom: ipa: IPA endpoints");
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---
> The original commit doesn't cherry-pick cleanly to v5.10.119. -Alex
All now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-03 12:30 [PATCH] net: ipa: compute proper aggregation limit Alex Elder
2022-06-03 12:30 ` Alex Elder
2022-06-03 12:30 ` Alex Elder
2022-06-03 14:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
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