From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jgross@suse.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/netfront: don't bug in case of too many frags
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:22:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180913.082243.1622516360155710681.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180911070448.3958-1-jgross@suse.com>
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:04:48 +0200
> Commit 57f230ab04d291 ("xen/netfront: raise max number of slots in
> xennet_get_responses()") raised the max number of allowed slots by one.
> This seems to be problematic in some configurations with netback using
> a larger MAX_SKB_FRAGS value (e.g. old Linux kernel with MAX_SKB_FRAGS
> defined as 18 instead of nowadays 17).
>
> Instead of BUG_ON() in this case just fall back to retransmission.
>
> Fixes: 57f230ab04d291 ("xen/netfront: raise max number of slots in xennet_get_responses()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Applied.
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2018-09-11 7:04 [PATCH] xen/netfront: don't bug in case of too many frags Juergen Gross
2018-09-13 15:22 ` David Miller
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