netdev - Re: [PATCH] Don't allow sharing of tx skbs on xen-netfront

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:27:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com,
	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't allow sharing of tx skbs on xen-netfront

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:22:24 -0500

> It was pointed out to me recently that the xen-netfront driver can't safely
> support shared skbs on transmit, since, while it doesn't maintain skb state
> directly, it does pass a pointer to the skb to the hypervisor via a list, and
> the hypervisor may expect the contents of the skb to remain stable.  Clearing
> the IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag after the call to alloc_etherdev to make it safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

Please put an appropriate prefix into the subject lines of your patch
submissions.  In this case "[PATCH] xen-netfront: ..." would be appropriate.

I've been letting you get away with this for the past few weeks and I've
decided that it's your turn to start getting this right :-)
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