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Our Transmit Frame Descriptor (TFD) is a DMA descriptor that includes several pointers to be able to transmit a packet which is not physically contiguous. Depending on the hardware being use, we can have 20 or 25 pointers in a single TFD. In both cases, it is more than enough and it is quite hard to hit this limit. It has been reported that when using specific applications (Ktorrent), we can actually use all the pointers and then a long standing bug showed up. When we free the TFD, we check its number of valid pointers and make sure it doesn't exceed the number of pointers the hardware support. This check had an off by one bug: it is perfectly valid to free the 20 pointers if the TFD has 20 pointers. Fix that. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197981 Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.