Re: [PATCH net 3/4] virtio-net: reset num_buf to 1 after linearizing packet

Jason Wang
2018-05-22T03:36:25Z

On 2018年05月21日 22:59, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 04:35:05PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> If we successfully linearize the packets, num_buf were set to zero
>> which was wrong since we now have only 1 buffer to be used for e.g in
>> the error path of receive_mergeable(). Zero num_buf will lead the code
>> try to pop the buffers of next packet and drop it. Fixing this by set
>> num_buf to 1 if we successfully linearize the packet.
>>
>> Fixes: 4941d472bf95 ("virtio-net: do not reset during XDP set")
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> index 6260d65..165a922 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> @@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
>> &len);
>> if (!xdp_page)
>> goto err_xdp;
>> + num_buf = 1;
> So this is tweaked here for the benefit of err_skb below.
> That's confusing and we won't remember to change it
> if we change the error handling.
>
> How about fixing the error path?
>
>
> - while (--num_buf) {
> + while (num_buf-- > 1) {
>
> Seems more robust to me.

Looks good, will do this in V2.

Thanks

>
>> offset = VIRTIO_XDP_HEADROOM;
>> } else {
>> xdp_page = page;
>> --
>> 2.7.4