netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] via-velocity: Re-enable transmit scatter-gather support

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Message-Id: <20091126.130934.155634662.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:09:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	simon.kagstrom@...insight.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davej@...hat.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	romieu@...zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] via-velocity: Re-enable transmit scatter-gather
 support

From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:36:41 +0100

> and after having crunched this in my head for a while, I couldn't
> convince myself that nr_frags would always come out as less than 7 from
> here. I don't claim to have done a thorough examination though.

__skb_linearize() does pskb_pull_tail() with length skb->data_len

skb->data_len represents the length of the data represented by non-linear
buffers in the SKB.

Therfore ending up with ->nr_frags != 0 or ->frag_list != NULL after this
operation would be a bug, and not something we should assert about in
driver code.
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