netdev - Re: [PATCH] korina: Read buffer overflow

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Date:	Sun,  9 Aug 2009 02:06:25 +0200
From:	Phil Sutter <n0-1@...ewrt.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, florian@...nwrt.org,
	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] korina: Read buffer overflow

Hi,

Testing of my approach to solve the buffer overrun issue showed that
living with a subset of the requested receive descriptors is not as easy
as initially assumed: uppon allocation failure the number of descriptors
would have to be reduced to the next lower power of two (as also stated
in the corresponding define's comment), which I consider too much
overhead. A better solution would be to export the ring parameters via
ethtool. For now, let's go Roel's way aborting completely and cleaning
up in this case.

The following series fixes the incorrect printk formatting we already
discussed, implements the solution from above and makes the driver use
netdev_ops.

Greetings, Phil
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