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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse•com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail•com>,
	Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp•ru>,
	dmitry.bezrukov@aquantia•com, marcinguy@gmail•com,
	davem@davemloft•net, edumazet@google•com, kuba@kernel•org,
	pabeni@redhat•com, linux-usb@vger•kernel.org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:53:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231124115307.GP50352@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2338f70a-1823-47ad-8302-7fb62481f736@suse.com>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:20:47AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22.11.23 11:07, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 11/22/23 1:04 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > > The driver checks for a single package overflowing
> > > > 
> > > >      Maybe packet?
> > > 
> > > No, that would be read as network packet, which
> > > is precisely what this not not and should not
> > > be mistaken for.
> > 
> >     But "package" hardly fits either. Is it a USB packet or something else?
> 
> Technically the content of the buffer associated
> with a single URB. Which on USB physically can be multiple
> packets. The network packets arrive together in a package.
> That is how this and related drivers operate.

I think it would be useful to include information along the lines
of the above in the patch description.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-24 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-22  9:52 [PATCHv2] USB: gl620a: check for rx buffer overflow Oliver Neukum
2023-11-22  9:55 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-11-22 10:04   ` Oliver Neukum
2023-11-22 10:07     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2023-11-22 10:20       ` Oliver Neukum
2023-11-24 11:53         ` Simon Horman [this message]
2023-11-30  9:38           ` Oliver Neukum
2023-11-30 16:42             ` Simon Horman
2023-12-05  8:04 ` Paolo Abeni
2023-12-05 10:21   ` Oliver Neukum

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