From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_md5_hash_skb_data() Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130514.113312.1004832430857949707.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1368516352.32106.13.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mischnal@google.com, bbeck@google.com To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:43547 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757894Ab3ENSdN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 14:33:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1368516352.32106.13.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 00:25:52 -0700 > From: Eric Dumazet > > TCP md5 communications fail [1] for some devices, because sg/crypto code > assume page offsets are below PAGE_SIZE. > > This was discovered using mlx4 driver [2], but I suspect loopback > might trigger the same bug now we use order-3 pages in tcp_sendmsg() > > [1] Failure is giving following messages. > > huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX ffffffff806ad230 preempt_count 00000100, > exited with 00000101? > > [2] mlx4 driver uses order-2 pages to allocate RX frags > > Reported-by: Matt Schnall > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.