netdev - Re: GRO + splice panics in 3.7.0-rc5

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Date:	Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:40:44 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GRO + splice panics in 3.7.0-rc5

On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:32:01PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 13:47 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > Thanks a lot Willy
> > 
> > I believe do_tcp_sendpages() needs a fix, I'll send a patch asap 
> > 
> 
> Could you try the following patch ?
> 
> do_tcp_sendpages() looks really wrong, as only one page is provided by
> the caller.

Excellent Eric, it's rock solid now both with the reproducer and with
haproxy!  Feel free to add my Tested-By if you want.

I really think we should feed this to Linus quickly before he releases 3.7,
as I'm realizing that it would really not be nice to have a user-triggerable
crash in a release :-/

Thanks !
Willy

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