This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-netback: remove pointless clause from if statement to the 3.10-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-remove-pointless-clause-from-if-statement.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Apr 11 08:46:36 PDT 2014 From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:39:05 +0000 Subject: xen-netback: remove pointless clause from if statement From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0576eddf24df716d8570ef8ca11452a9f98eaab2 ] This patch removes a test in start_new_rx_buffer() that checks whether a copy operation is less than MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET in length, since MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET is defined to be PAGE_SIZE and the only caller of start_new_rx_buffer() already limits copy operations to PAGE_SIZE or less. Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-By: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-By: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -347,8 +347,8 @@ static bool start_new_rx_buffer(int offs * into multiple copies tend to give large frags their * own buffers as before. */ - if ((offset + size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && - (size <= MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && offset && !head) + BUG_ON(size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET); + if ((offset + size > MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET) && offset && !head) return true; return false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/xen-netback-remove-pointless-clause-from-if-statement.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html