From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754698Ab1JZDNF (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:13:05 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:60921 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754540Ab1JZDND (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:13:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:12:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20111025.231204.257472162924919077.davem@davemloft.net> To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, evonlanthen@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, timo.teras@iki.fi Subject: Re: PROBLEM: System call 'sendmsg' of process ospfd (quagga) causes kernel oops From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20111025115425.GA1530@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20111020.053050.383972361986316046.davem@davemloft.net> <20111020093541.GA3024@gondor.apana.org.au> <20111025115425.GA1530@gondor.apana.org.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Herbert Xu Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:25 +0200 > So I'm going to get rid of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE completely and > replace it with explicit references to the tailroom as it doesn't > need the alignment anyway (The headroom needs alignment since > we use it to ensure the head is aligned). Ok.