netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] RDS rds

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Message-Id: <20101030.163437.246540203.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:34:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andy.grover@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] RDS rds_iovec fixes

From: Andy Grover <andy.grover@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:40:54 -0700

> This patchset includes Linus' rds_iovec overflow fix, as well as making
> a copy of the rds_iovec array to prevent userspace from changing them after
> we've checked them.
> 
> Please especially review patch 5. We go from 3 to 2 iovec copies, but it's not
> trivial to go to one, due to some code that wants to preallocate space for SGs.
> Until that code can be changed, patch 5 attempts to safely handle the scenario.

I looked carefully over these and they look ok.

Applied, thanks Andy.
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