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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] virtio_net: don't free buffers in xmit ring
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:37:33 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906022337.33799.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243942902.9146.216.camel@blaa>

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:11:42 pm Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:13 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > I think skb_orphan() is enough to prevent this, is it?
>
> Oops, I meant:
>
>   I don't think skb_orphan() is enough to prevent this, is it?

Yes, point taken.  No, it's not.  We could add nf_reset here too, which would 
be perfectly sane.

I'm tempted to avoid the question marks hanging over generic skb_orphan for 
now, and just do skb_orphan & nf_reset at the head of our driver.

Then look at making skb_orphan do nf_reset.  It makes sense, but I'd have to 
audit all the callers.

Thanks.
Rusty.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29 14:16 [PATCH 3/4] virtio_net: don't free buffers in xmit ring Rusty Russell
2009-06-02  8:13 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-06-02 11:41   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-06-02 14:07     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-06-02 13:43   ` Rusty Russell

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