netdev - Re: oopses since "net: Optimize memory usage when splicing from sockets"

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Message-Id: <20090430.054339.84716557.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:43:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	buytenh@...tstofly.org
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oopses since "net: Optimize memory usage when splicing from
 sockets"

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:45:42 +0200

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:40:40AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> > With your patch, at least the oops is gone, and I guess it makes
>> > sense and looks correct, so:
>> > 
>> > 	Tested-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
>> 
>> Thanks for testing Lennert.
>> 
>> I'll queue this up for -stable too.
> 
> I don't see this in 2.6.29, since the offending commit was merged
> after 2.6.29 AFAICS?

You're right, it's not needed there.  The optimization went into
2.6.30-rcX only.

Thanks!

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