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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>,
	Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>,
	dmitry.bezrukov@aquantia.com, marcinguy@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:20:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2338f70a-1823-47ad-8302-7fb62481f736@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a04ff8e-7044-2d46-ab12-f18f7833b7f5@gmail.com>



On 22.11.23 11:07, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 11/22/23 1:04 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> [...]
>>>> The driver checks for a single package overflowing
>>>
>>>      Maybe packet?
>>
>> No, that would be read as network packet, which
>> is precisely what this not not and should not
>> be mistaken for.
> 
>     But "package" hardly fits either. Is it a USB packet or something else?

Technically the content of the buffer associated
with a single URB. Which on USB physically can be multiple
packets. The network packets arrive together in a package.
That is how this and related drivers operate.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-22 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-22  9:52 [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow Oliver Neukum
2023-11-22  9:55 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-11-22 10:04   ` Oliver Neukum
2023-11-22 10:07     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2023-11-22 10:20       ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2023-11-24 11:53         ` Simon Horman
2023-11-30  9:38           ` Oliver Neukum
2023-11-30 16:42             ` Simon Horman
2023-12-05  8:04 ` Paolo Abeni
2023-12-05 10:21   ` Oliver Neukum

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