netdev - Re: [PATCH] skge: fix broken driver

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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:58:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
cc:	Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skge: fix broken driver



On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Francois Romieu wrote:

> Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> :
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Francois Romieu wrote:
> [...]
> > > Both patches don't behave exactly the same wrt pci_unmap_single.
> [...]
> > I see, my patch passes a wrong value to pci_unmap_single. So I made this 
> > change to make it pass the correct value. Do you agree with this patch ?
> 
> Yes. I did not report it. Igor did.

You did report it. You said earlier in some email: "Both patches don't 
behave exactly the same wrt pci_unmap_single." I found this bug because of 
that message.

Mikulas

> You may "struct skge_element ee = *e;" and save a line. Who cares about
> the extra copy when netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align fails ?
> 
> Something less ugly for the longer term
> - use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align in skge_rx_fill
> - have skge_rx_setup return previouly stored sk_buff * - NULL if it was so -
>   and ERR_PTR when it fails for whatever reason
> - move netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align into skge_rx_setup
> - pci_unmap in skge_rx_setup
> - profit
> 
> Or isolate the struct sk_buff * + DEFINE_DMA_ part in skge_element then
> save it as a whole in skge_rx_setup before initializing a new one as a
> (netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align + pci_map).
> 
> Does someone volunteer to write it for net-next once the fix has been
> merged and later pulled into net-next ?
> 
> -- 
> Ueimor
> 
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