2022-05-22 13:09:29

by Alex Elder

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] net: ipa: fix page free in two spots

On 5/21/22 7:59 PM, Alex Elder wrote:
> When a receive buffer is not wrapped in an SKB and passed to the
> network stack, the (compound) page gets freed within the IPA driver.
> This is currently quite rare.
>
> The pages are freed using __free_pages(), but they should instead be
> freed using page_put(). This series fixes this, in two spots.
>
> These patches work for Linux v5.18-rc7 and v5.17.y, but won't apply
> cleanly to earlier stable branches. (Nevertheless, the fix is
> trivial.)
>
> -Alex

I accidentally based this on net-next/master rather than net/master.
Sorry about that. I'll send version 2 in a few days.

-Alex

> Alex Elder (2):
> net: ipa: fix page free in ipa_endpoint_trans_release()
> net: ipa: fix page free in ipa_endpoint_replenish_one()
>
> drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c | 9 +++------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>