From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio_net Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:19:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4B063509.10006@gmail.com> References: <1258697745.7416.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Avi Kivity , Rusty Russell , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Shirley Ma Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:48429 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754012AbZKTGUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:20:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1258697745.7416.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Shirley Ma a =E9crit : > This patch is generated against 2.6 git tree. I didn't break up this > patch since it has one functionality. Please review it. >=20 > Thanks > Shirley >=20 > Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma > ------ > =20 > +void virtio_free_pages(void *buf) > +{ > + struct page *page =3D (struct page *)buf; > + > + while (page) { > + __free_pages(page, 0); > + page =3D (struct page *)page->private; > + } > +} > + Interesting use after free :)