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From: Mathias Krause <mathias.krause@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: allow to leave the buffer fragmented in skb_cow_data()
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:49:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527A109E.5040000@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106093028.GA18435@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 06.11.2013 10:30, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> -	/* If skb is cloned or its head is paged, reallocate
>> -	 * head pulling out all the pages (pages are considered not writable
>> -	 * at the moment even if they are anonymous).
>> +	/* If skb is cloned reallocate head pulling out all the pages (pages are
>> +	 * considered not writable at the moment even if they are anonymous).
>>  	 */
> 
> Hang on, you haven't explained why it is OK to write to pages.

Why wouldn't it if the skb isn't cloned?

> What if said page is owned by the virt host or some app?

How would one detect such a case. I could image not by testing
skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags as it is right now?


Regards,
Mathias

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05 13:54 [PATCH net-next 0/3] IPsec improvements Mathias Krause
2013-11-05 13:54 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: move pskb_put() to core code Mathias Krause
2013-11-05 18:33   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-11-06  9:01     ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-05 13:54 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] caif: use pskb_put() instead of reimplementing its functionality Mathias Krause
2013-11-05 13:54 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: allow to leave the buffer fragmented in skb_cow_data() Mathias Krause
2013-11-05 14:33   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-05 14:43     ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-06  9:30   ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-06  9:49     ` Mathias Krause [this message]
2013-11-06  9:52       ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-06 12:42         ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-06 12:48           ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-06 16:39             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-07  8:56               ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-07  8:55             ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-07  9:01               ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-07 10:01                 ` Mathias Krause
2013-11-06  4:48 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] IPsec improvements David Miller
2013-11-06  9:02   ` Mathias Krause

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