netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix guest memory leak and panic

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Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com, krkumar2@...ibm.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix guest memory leak and panic

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:07:39 +0200

>> From 369022220db31efb9c261cbabcb890a4d216a176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:59:37 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] net: do not take an additional reference in skb_frag_set_page
>> 
>> I audited all of the callers in the tree and only one of them (pktgen) expects
>> it to do so. Taking this reference is pretty obviously confusing and error
>> prone.
>> 
>> In particular I looked at the following commits which switched callers of
>> (__)skb_frag_set_page to the skb paged fragment api:
 ...
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
 ...
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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