netdev - Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start

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Message-ID: <1311106635.12882.29.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:17:15 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@....uu.se>
Cc:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in
 ndo_start_xmit methods

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:02 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 15:52 -0400, Neil Horman a écrit :
> > This oops was reported recently when running a pktgen script that called for a
> > transmitted skb to be cloned and sent 100 times using the clone_skb command to a
> > bridge device with several attached interface:
> BTW you forgot to CC pktgen author, Robert Olsson

Robert, you're not getting cc's on pktgen when
people use get_maintainer.

Are you still interested in getting cc'd on patches
to pktgen?

If so, perhaps you want to add a MAINTAINERS entry
for it.

Maybe something like:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 378fccf..5a6c16a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4999,6 +4999,11 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
 F:	include/linux/pktcdvd.h
 
+PKTGEN
+M:	Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@....uu.se>
+S:	Odd Fixes
+F:	net/core/pktgen.c
+
 PKUNITY SOC DRIVERS
 M:	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>
 W:	http://mprc.pku.edu.cn/~guanxuetao/linux


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