netdev - Re: [RFC] situation with csum_and_copy

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Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:01:25 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] situation with csum_and_copy_... API

On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 08:49 +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Another thing is tcp_sendmsg_fastopen() and tcp_send_rcvq().  The latter
> should just use copy_from_iter() instead of memcpy_from_iovec(), the former
> is dealt with by making tcp_send_syn_data() use the same copy_from_iter()
> instead of memcpy_from_iovecend().

Well, another problem I already mentioned is that tcp_send_rcvq() does a
single alloc_skb() with @size directly coming from user space. This
certainly can try allocation of dozen of Megabytes.

Not good.



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