netdev - Re: velocity driver unmaps incorrect size.

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:42:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	davej@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: velocity driver unmaps incorrect size.

From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:40:44 -0400

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:43:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
>  > Is it possible that for some reason
>  > your build is forcing VELOCITY_ZERO_COPY_SUPPORT to be defined
>  > for some reason?
> 
> Memory corruption maybe?
> It's especially odd in that it only happens once during boot,
> and never happens again. This is my firewall/router, so there's
> more packets going through that box than any other I have.

I would not be inclined to this theory.  Regardless of what garbage is
read from skb->len, it's always going to be at least ETH_ZLEN due to
the "max of skb->len and ETH_ZLEN" assignment there.

> btw, given the zerocopy stuff has been disabled for so long,
> is it worth keeping it ?

I'm pretty sure it should be tossed.  I wonder if anyone even tries
to build that code these days.
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