netdev - Re: [PANIC] lro + iscsi or lro + skb text search causes panic

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Message-ID: <4978F804.3060502@cs.wisc.edu>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:49:40 -0600
From:	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>
To:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, olaf.kirch@...cle.com, tgraf@...g.ch,
	kkeil@...e.de, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PANIC] lro + iscsi or lro + skb text search causes panic

Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> 
> skb_copy_bits is an example of the code flow that does work.
> 
> skb_seq_read appears to only be used by iSCSI and the skb text match 
> support in tc/netfilter (aka skb_find_text)
> 

There is no reason iscsi needs to use skb_seq_read. It used to use 
skb_copy_bits. I can convert iscsi to use skb_copy_bits again.

Is it easier to just convert the text search to not use skb_seq_read, 
and then just dump those functions?
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