netdev - Re: [PATCH net V2] virtio-net: drop NETIF_F

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	jasowang@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2] virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:13:11 +0300

> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 10:34:04AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> virtio declares support for NETIF_F_FRAGLIST, but assumes
>> that there are at most MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 fragments which isn't
>> always true with a fraglist.
>> 
>> A longer fraglist in the skb will make the call to skb_to_sgvec overflow
>> the sg array, leading to memory corruption.
>> 
>> Drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST so we only get what we can handle.
>> 
>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> 
> I noticed only now that this didn't Cc Dave, so of course it's
> not applied.

CC:'ing me isn't the requirement. CC:'ing netdev is, which he
did.  If you check patchwork, it's there in the queue.

I'm just behind and heavily backlogged because I've been working
on other things.

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