From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: levinsasha928@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
mst@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:19:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111003.141951.1122469843900651595.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317220855-9352-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com>
From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:40:54 +0300
> This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list
> of pages is small enough to fit into a skb.
>
> If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't
> go ahead building skbs anyway since we won't be able to send the buffer as
> the user requested.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Michael, tell me what's happening with these two virtio-net bug fixes.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-03 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-28 14:40 [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb Sasha Levin
2011-09-28 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio-net: Prevent NULL dereference Sasha Levin
2011-10-03 18:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-05 13:50 ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-05 18:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-03 19:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-08 8:40 ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-06 19:41 ` David Miller
2011-10-03 18:19 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-10-03 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size before fitting into skb Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-03 19:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-05 13:50 ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-05 18:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-06 19:41 ` David Miller
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