Re: [V2 PATCH 2/9] macvtap: zerocopy: fix truesize underestimation

From: Shirley Ma
Date: Thu May 17 2012 - 11:28:43 EST


On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 10:59 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Didn't see how this affact skb->len. And for truesize, I think they
> are
> different, when the offset were not zero, the data in this vector
> were
> divided into two parts. First part is copied into skb directly, and
> the
> second were pinned from a whole userspace page by
> get_user_pages_fast(),
> so we need count the whole page to the socket limit to prevent evil
> application.

What I meant that the code for skb->truesize has double added the first
offset if any left from that vector (partically copied into skb
directly, and then count pagesize which includes the offset (truesize +=
PAGE_SIZE)).

Thanks
Shirley

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