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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: stranche@codeaurora.org,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: Fix kernel panic in UDP GSO path
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:10:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cfbf250-84b3-363c-4c60-e62613f8aefb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c86a2fbde50aea2b28e82c333f29d575@codeaurora.org>



On 05/14/2018 03:45 PM, stranche@codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2018-05-11 17:16, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> 
>>> Hmm, no, we absolutely need to fix GSO instead.
>>>
>>> Think of a bonding device (or any virtual devices), your patch wont avoid the crash.
> 
> Hi Eric. Can you clarify what you mean by "fix GSO?" Is that just having the GSO path work
> regardless of whether or not SG is enabled for the device?
>

Yes. GSO is a fallback, and must work all the time, not panic.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-14 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-11  0:38 [PATCH net-next] udp: Fix kernel panic in UDP GSO path Sean Tranchetti
2018-05-11  0:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-05-11 23:16   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-05-14 22:45     ` stranche
2018-05-14 23:07       ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-05-14 23:10       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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