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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] cadence_gem: fix buffer overflow


From: Alistair Francis
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] cadence_gem: fix buffer overflow
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:20:50 -0800

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:06 AM, P J P <address@hidden> wrote:
> +-- On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Peter Crosthwaite wrote --+
> | I guess QEMU needs the whole packet before handing off to the net layer and
> | the assumption is that the packet is always within 2048. The easiest
> | solution is to realloc the buffer as it goes with the increasing sizes.
>
>   Yes, I was considering increasing buffer size with view of the jumbo
> packets. In gem_transmit(), 'tx_desc_get_length' returns length masked by
> DESC_1_LENGTH(=0x1FFF=8191) bytes. But thought dynamic allocation might lead
> to excessive buffer allocation, not sure how constrained the Xilinx platform
> is for memory.

Won't the allocation/reallocation happen on the host?

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> --
>  - P J P
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