Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: fix xenvif_count_skb_slots()

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 15:36 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:26:23 +0100
> 
> > Commit 4f0581d25827d5e864bcf07b05d73d0d12a20a5c introduced an error into
> > xenvif_count_skb_slots() for skbs with a linear area spanning a page
> > boundary. The alignment of skb->data needs to be taken into account, not
> > just the head length. This patch fixes the issue by dry-running the code
> > from xenvif_gop_skb() (and adjusting the comment above the function to note
> > that).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There seems to be a lot of back and forth about what is the most
> desirable way forward wrt. this commit and another similar one.
> 
> Please advise.

Lets revert 4f0581d25827d5e864bcf07b05d73d0d12a20a5c and see about
making this stuff less fragile in the future.

Thanks,
Ian.



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