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Change the interleaving of packets in unaligned mode. With the current buffer addresses in the packet stream, the last buffer in the umem could not be used as a large packet could potentially write over the end of the umem. The kernel correctly threw this buffer address away and refused to use it. This is perfectly fine for all regular packet streams, but the ones used for unaligned mode have every other packet being at some different offset. As we will add checks for correct offsets in the next patch, this needs to be fixed. Just start these page-boundary straddling buffers one page earlier so that the last one is not on the last page of the umem, making all buffers valid. Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210922075613.12186-13-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
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