From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PATCH v6 2/4] net: moxa: replace build_skb() with netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() / memcpy() In-Reply-To: <1408976542-15624-1-git-send-email-jonas.jensen@gmail.com> References: <1408544342-32058-1-git-send-email-jonas.jensen@gmail.com> <1408976542-15624-1-git-send-email-jonas.jensen@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20140825.172604.1629510702830732700.davem@davemloft.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org From: Jonas Jensen Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:22:22 +0200 > build_skb() is used to make skbs out of existing RX ring memory > which is bad because the RX ring is allocated only once, on probe. > Memory corruption occur because said memory is reclaimed, i.e. > __kfree_skb() (and eventually put_page()). > > Replace build_skb() with netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() and use memcpy(). > > Remove SKB_DATA_ALIGN() from RX buffer size while we're at it. > > Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69041 > > Signed-off-by: Jonas Jensen Applied.