netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: Pad OVS_PACKET_ATTR

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:53:48 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] openvswitch: Pad OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PACKET if
 linear copy was performed

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:03 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:27:49 +0000
>
>> While the zerocopy method is correctly omitted if user space
>> does not support unaligned Netlink messages. The attribute is
>> still not padded correctly as skb_zerocopy() will not ensure
>> padding and the attribute size is no longer pre calculated
>> though nla_reserve() which ensured padding previously.
>>
>> This patch applies appropriate padding if a linear data copy
>> was performed in skb_zerocopy().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
>> ---
>> v2: initialize padding to 0's
>
> Jesse do you want to queue this up or should I apply it directly?

I queued it up, thanks.
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