netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: Fix an overflow bug in vmxnet3 Tx descriptor

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Message-ID: <FE86E729-1744-4D87-BEDA-68453C7F8B09@vmware.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:10:55 -0700
From:	Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: Fix an overflow bug in vmxnet3 Tx
 descriptor

Sorry about that. I'll keep that in mind for future patches. Thanks for fixing up and commiting this patch.

Regards

- Bhavesh

(From my iPhone)


On Jul 25, 2010, at 5:05 PM, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:43:29 -0700
> 
>> ---
> 
> If you put the "---" there are the beginning of your message,
> the whole commit message is discarded by GIT.
> 
> I said you should put "---" at the end of the commit message,
> when you want to add more side commentary that should not appear
> in the commit message but is for people in this thread to read.
> 
> I fixed this up when adding your patch, but I have no idea why
> you did this.  Please don't do it again.
> 
>> Fix an overflow bug in vmxnet3 Tx descriptor
>> 
>> This patch fixes a bug where a 16K buffer on a Tx descriptor was overflowing
>> into the 'gen' bit in the descriptor thereby corrupting the descriptor and
>> stalling the transmit ring.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Delco <delcoM@...are.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ronghua Zhang <ronghua@...are.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
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