netdev - Re: [net PATCH v5 1/6] virtio_net: use dev_kfree

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:43:28 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mst@...hat.com
Cc:     john.fastabend@...il.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [net PATCH v5 1/6] virtio_net: use dev_kfree_skb for small
 buffer XDP receive

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:08:35 +0200

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 02:19:50PM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
>> In the small buffer case during driver unload we currently use
>> put_page instead of dev_kfree_skb. Resolve this by adding a check
>> for virtnet mode when checking XDP queue type. Also name the
>> function so that the code reads correctly to match the additional
>> check.
>> 
>> Fixes: bb91accf2733 ("virtio-net: XDP support for small buffers")
>> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
>> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> 
> I think we definitely want this one in -net as it's
> a bugfix.

This whole series is a bug fix, we must have adjust_header XDP
support in the virtio_net driver before v4.10 goes out, it is
a requires base feature for XDP.