RE: [PATCH V3 0/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable various offloads

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Mon Mar 10 2014 - 20:42:46 EST




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> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 1:26 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] Drivers: net: hyperv: Enable various offloads
>
> From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 19:22:42 -0800
>
> > This patch set enables both checksum as well as segmentation offload.
> > As part of this effort I have enabled scatter gather I/O a well.
> >
> > In version 2 of these patches, I addressed comments from David Miller
> > and Dan Carpenter.
> >
> > In this version I have addressed the latest comments from David Miller.
>
> Series applied, thanks.
>
> I still think that fill_pg_buf() could be improved.
>
> For example, it returns '1' if len is passed in as zero. Maybe that can't
> happen, but if it does the page buffer array will be corrupted and the driver
> will process garbage.
>
> It seems so much more straightforward to me if you simply incremented 'j' in
> the loop when an array entry is actually filled in. Then just return 'j'.
>
> int j;
> ...
> pb[j].pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> pb[j].offset = offset;
> pb[j].len = bytes;
> j++;
> ...
> return j;
>
>
> Then 'j' is unambiguously the number of pb array entries which were filled in,
> no matter what.
Thanks David. As you suggest, I will send a patch to make this cleaner.

Regards,

K. Y
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