netdev - Re: [2/2] igb: Replace LRO with GRO

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:40:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	emil.s.tantilov@...el.com
Subject: Re: [2/2] igb: Replace LRO with GRO

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:32:46 +1100

> gro: Fix page ref count for skbs freed normally
> 
> When an skb with page frags is merged into an existing one, we
> cannibalise its reference count.  This is OK when the skb is
> reused because we set nr_frags to zero in that case.  However,
> for the case where the skb is freed through kfree_skb, we didn't
> clear nr_frags which causes the page to be freed prematurely.
> 
> This is fixed by moving the skb resetting into skb_gro_receive.
> 
> Reported-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied to net-2.6
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