This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-netback: avoid allocating variable size array on stack
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xen-netback-avoid-allocating-variable-size-array-on-stack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 59ccb4ebbc35e36a3c143f2d1355deb75c2e628f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 00:43:58 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: avoid allocating variable size array on stack
From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 59ccb4ebbc35e36a3c143f2d1355deb75c2e628f upstream.
Tune xen_netbk_count_requests to not touch working array beyond limit, so that
we can make working array size constant.
Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
@@ -934,11 +934,14 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct x
RING_IDX cons = vif->tx.req_cons;
int slots = 0;
int drop_err = 0;
+ int more_data;
if (!(first->flags & XEN_NETTXF_more_data))
return 0;
do {
+ struct xen_netif_tx_request dropped_tx = { 0 };
+
if (slots >= work_to_do) {
netdev_err(vif->dev,
"Asked for %d slots but exceeds this limit\n",
@@ -972,6 +975,9 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct x
drop_err = -E2BIG;
}
+ if (drop_err)
+ txp = &dropped_tx;
+
memcpy(txp, RING_GET_REQUEST(&vif->tx, cons + slots),
sizeof(*txp));
@@ -1001,7 +1007,13 @@ static int netbk_count_requests(struct x
netbk_fatal_tx_err(vif);
return -EINVAL;
}
- } while ((txp++)->flags & XEN_NETTXF_more_data);
+
+ more_data = txp->flags & XEN_NETTXF_more_data;
+
+ if (!drop_err)
+ txp++;
+
+ } while (more_data);
if (drop_err) {
netbk_tx_err(vif, first, cons + slots);
@@ -1413,7 +1425,7 @@ static unsigned xen_netbk_tx_build_gops(
!list_empty(&netbk->net_schedule_list)) {
struct xenvif *vif;
struct xen_netif_tx_request txreq;
- struct xen_netif_tx_request txfrags[max_skb_slots];
+ struct xen_netif_tx_request txfrags[XEN_NETIF_NR_SLOTS_MIN];
struct page *page;
struct xen_netif_extra_info extras[XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPE_MAX-1];
u16 pending_idx;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/xen-netback-coalesce-slots-in-tx-path-and-fix-regressions.patch
queue-3.9/xen-netback-remove-redundent-parameter-in-netbk_count_requests.patch
queue-3.9/xen-netback-remove-skb-in-xen_netbk_alloc_page.patch
queue-3.9/xen-netback-don-t-disconnect-frontend-when-seeing-oversize-packet.patch
queue-3.9/xen-netback-avoid-allocating-variable-size-array-on-stack.patch
queue-3.9/xen-netfront-reduce-gso_max_size-to-account-for-max-tcp-header.patch
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