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Message-ID: <20080916073632.GA25226@mtls03>
Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:36:32 +0300
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, themann@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: LRO num of frags limit

Hi,

looking at the LRO code, at __lro_proc_segment(), it seems that the
network driver can configure lro_mgr->max_aggr to any value it wants
while the number of fragments aggregated must not exceed MAX_SKB_FRAGS
(since we only use a single SKB to aggregate fragments, allocated by
lro_gen_skb()). Moreover, even if the driver does limit
lro_mgr->max_aggr to MAX_SKB_FRAGS, it might still cause overflow
since subsequent aggregations are done at lro_add_frags() which is
called before checking whether we overflow.
If the above observation is correct, I can send a patch.

Thanks,
Eli
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