netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v4] xen-netfront: clean up code in xennet_release_rx

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:05:26 +0800
From:	annie li <annie.li@...cle.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, wei.liu2@...rix.com,
	ian.campbell@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v4] xen-netfront: clean up code in
 xennet_release_rx_bufs


On 2014/1/24 18:48, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 24/01/14 03:28, Annie Li wrote:
>> From: Annie Li <annie.li@...cle.com>
>>
>> This patch removes grant transfer releasing code from netfront, and uses
>> gnttab_end_foreign_access to end grant access since
>> gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref may fail when the grant entry is
>> currently used for reading or writing.
>>
>> * clean up grant transfer code kept from old netfront(2.6.18) which grants
>> pages for access/map and transfer. But grant transfer is deprecated in current
>> netfront, so remove corresponding release code for transfer.
>>
>> * release grant access (through gnttab_end_foreign_access) and skb for tx/rx path,
>> use get_page to ensure page is released when grant access is completed successfully.
>>
>> Xen-blkfront/xen-tpmfront/xen-pcifront also have similar issue, but patches
>> for them will be created separately.
> ...
>> @@ -1439,8 +1403,11 @@ static int netfront_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
>>   static void xennet_end_access(int ref, void *page)
>>   {
>>   	/* This frees the page as a side-effect */
>> -	if (ref != GRANT_INVALID_REF)
>> +	if (ref != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
>> +		get_page(virt_to_page(page));
>>   		gnttab_end_foreign_access(ref, 0, (unsigned long)page);
>> +		free_page((unsigned long)page);
>> +	}
>>   }

Oh, these code were kept from my debug, will remove it.

Thanks
Annie
> Please drop this hunk.
>
> Otherwise,
>
> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
>
> David
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@...ts.xen.org
> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html