Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start_xmit methods

Joe Perches
2011-07-19T20:17:16Z

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:02 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 15:52 -0400, Neil Horman a écrit :
> > This oops was reported recently when running a pktgen script that called for a
> > transmitted skb to be cloned and sent 100 times using the clone_skb command to a
> > bridge device with several attached interface:
> BTW you forgot to CC pktgen author, Robert Olsson

Robert, you're not getting cc's on pktgen when
people use get_maintainer.

Are you still interested in getting cc'd on patches
to pktgen?

If so, perhaps you want to add a MAINTAINERS entry
for it.

Maybe something like:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 378fccf..5a6c16a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4999,6 +4999,11 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
F: include/linux/pktcdvd.h

+PKTGEN
+M: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
+S: Odd Fixes
+F: net/core/pktgen.c
+
PKUNITY SOC DRIVERS
M: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
W: http://mprc.pku.edu.cn/~guanxuetao/linux