netdev - Re: [PATCH] deal with if frags[0].size is pulled to 0 in dev_gro

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Date:	Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:56:38 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deal with if frags[0].size is pulled to 0 in
	dev_gro_receive()

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:17:19AM +0800, xiaohui.xin@...el.com wrote:
> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
> 
> Now in dev_gro_receive(), if frags[0].size is pulled to 0, memmove is called and
> the null page is released. But it's not enough, we should reset size of each frags
> left as well. Compared to this, we can have another way to do this, it's not do do
> anything at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>

This patch can only work if you audit everything that uses skb
frags to ensure that they can tolerate a zero-sided frag.

I think it's much easier to just fix the memmove.

Thanks,
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