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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: iws@ovro.caltech.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	markmc@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: use correct accessors for scatterlists
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:00:55 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090126.210055.104964648.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901271521.19616.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:21:19 +1030

> On Saturday 24 January 2009 10:40:53 Ira Snyder wrote:
> > Without this fix, virtio_net makes incorrect usage of scatterlists. It sets
> > the end of the scatterlist chain after the first element, despite the fact
> > that more entries come after it.
> > 
> > If you try to run dma_map_sg() on one of the scatterlists given to you by
> > add_buf(), you will get a null pointer oops.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
> 
> Thanks, this should go in 2.6.29.  Dave?

Applied, should I queue it up for -stable too Rusty?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24  0:10 Ira Snyder
     [not found] ` <200901250010.11434.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-24 18:41   ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-27  4:51 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-27  5:00   ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-28 10:59     ` Rusty Russell

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