netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Fix dma setup for fragmented packets that need a pad byte appended.

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:41:58 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: Fix dma setup for fragmented packets that need
 a pad byte appended.

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 11:16 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> If the usbnet code appends a byte to a fragmented packet (in order to avoid
> sending a bulk data message that is a multiple of the USB message size) then
> the scatter-gather list isn't initialised correctly.
> This causes a later panic in usb_hcd_map_urb_for_dma().
> Basically when the code tries to access the final sg fragment the sg function
> returns NULL because the 'end of sg list' market is set in the previous one.
> 
> Bug introduced in commit 60e453a940ac678565b6641d65f8c18541bb9f28
> (USBNET: fix handling padding packet) and needs applying to all
> kernels that contain this change (including 3.12).
> 
> Fix from Bjorn Mork.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@...lab.com>
> ---
> 
> I think it is ok that the sg table's last element is never assigned to when
> the packet isn't padded.

Original patch contained :

Fixes: 60e453a940ac ("USBNET: fix handling padding packet")
Reported-by: Thomas Kear <thomas@...r.co.nz>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>

Why did you remove this and took ownership of this patch ?

It seems you would only need to either add :

Acked-by: ...

or 

Tested-by: ...

or

Reviewed-by: ...



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