Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:29:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> That would not happen without scatter-gather support on the interface,
> date would be plain copied, and after Jarek's requst Willy confirmed
> that corruption happens with all acceleration being turned off.

It will happen without scatter-gather support.  The problem
is with skb->head, which is always there.  In any case, SG can't
make any difference because the skb is an inbound one and most
drivers only produce linear packets.

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