Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:38:59AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, once the pipe is fed into sendpage we only use
> > page reference counting to pin down the memory.  So as soon as
> > sendpage returns we drop the ref count on the skb, thus freeing
> > the memory in skb->head, which is yet to be transmitted.
> 
> So this means that anything relying on sendpage() is at risk ? What

No the bug is in the splice code.  sendfile() and other sendpage
users are not affected.

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