netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] Revert "netvsc: optimize calculation of number of slots"

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] Revert "netvsc: optimize calculation of number
 of slots"

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:03:19 -0700

> The logic for computing page buffer scatter does not take into
> account the impact of compound pages. Therefore the optimization
> to compute number of slots was incorrect and could cause stack
> corruption a skb was sent with lots of fragments from huge pages.
> 
> This reverts commit 60b86665af0dfbeebda8aae43f0ba451cd2dcfe5.
> 
> Fixes: 60b86665af0d ("netvsc: optimize calculation of number of slots")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Applied.