[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Don't allow sharing of tx skbs on xen-netfront
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:22:24 -0500 > It was pointed out to me recently that the xen-netfront driver can't safely > support shared skbs on transmit, since, while it doesn't maintain skb state > directly, it does pass a pointer to the skb to the hypervisor via a list, and > the hypervisor may expect the contents of the skb to remain stable. Clearing > the IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag after the call to alloc_etherdev to make it safe. > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Please put an appropriate prefix into the subject lines of your patch submissions. In this case "[PATCH] xen-netfront: ..." would be appropriate. I've been letting you get away with this for the past few weeks and I've decided that it's your turn to start getting this right :-) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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