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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA velocity skb leak.
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B89385.4090005@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090312043954.GA7132@redhat.com>

Dave Jones a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:20:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>  > From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>  > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
>  > 
>  > > 
>  > > velocity_xmit() needs to set 'pktlen = skb->len;' after,
>  > > not before, the skb_padto() call.
>  > 
>  > Actually that won't work since, as you suggest, skb->len
>  > isn't updated by skb_padto().
>  > 
>  > So the transmit needs something like:
>  > 
>  > 	pktlen = (skb->len > ETH_ZLEN ? : ETH_ZLEN);
>  > 
>  > velocity_free_tx_buf() needs to make the same calculation
>  > instead of just plain skb->len
> 
> Something like this ?
> (It looks like the ZERO_COPY_SUPPORT is never enabled anywhere,
>  so I didn't dig into how that works).
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
> index c5691fd..cd34dda 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c
> @@ -1838,6 +1838,7 @@ static void velocity_free_tx_buf(struct velocity_info *vptr, struct velocity_td_
>  {
>  	struct sk_buff *skb = tdinfo->skb;
>  	int i;
> +	int pktlen;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 *	Don't unmap the pre-allocated tx_bufs
> @@ -1845,10 +1846,11 @@ static void velocity_free_tx_buf(struct velocity_info *vptr, struct velocity_td_
>  	if (tdinfo->skb_dma) {
>  
> +		pktlen = (skb->len > ETH_ZLEN ? : ETH_ZLEN);

I personally find better to use max(skb->len, ETH_ZLEN) macro, but YMMV ;)

It actually can avoid you a bug ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12  4:13 VIA velocity skb leak Dave Jones
2009-03-12  4:17 ` David Miller
2009-03-12  4:20   ` David Miller
2009-03-12  4:39     ` Dave Jones
2009-03-12  4:45       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-03-12  4:56         ` Dave Jones
2009-03-12  5:14           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-13 20:36             ` David Miller
2009-03-13 20:52               ` a2065 skb_padto cleanups Dave Jones
2009-03-19  1:18                 ` David Miller
2009-03-13 21:10               ` r8169 skb leak Dave Jones
2009-03-13 22:26                 ` Francois Romieu
2009-03-13 22:33                   ` David Miller

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