Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio-net: Verify page list size beforefitting into skb

[David Miller]

From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:40:54 +0300

> This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list
> of pages is small enough to fit into a skb.
> 
> If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't
> go ahead building skbs anyway since we won't be able to send the buffer as
> the user requested.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>

Michael, tell me what's happening with these two virtio-net bug fixes.

Thanks.
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