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        "Subject": "[Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCHv2 0/1] idpf: IDPF + SWIOTLB Bug",
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        "From": "Steve Rutherford via Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org>",
        "Reply-To": "Steve Rutherford <srutherford@google.com>",
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    "content": "Found an issue with the IDPF driver when SWIOTLB is enabled. The issue\nresults in empty headers for packets that hit the split queue workaround\npath. It's caused by a spurious sync in that path. The header is synced\nfrom the SWIOTLB even when the header was shoved into the payload.\n\nI cooked up a sample patch, but I'm not an expert in this driver, so I have\nno idea if it's the right solution. It did allow my QEMU VM to boot with a\nsuperficially functional passed-through IDPF NIC and SWIOTLB=force.\n\nThe patch was written against COS's 6.12, so I assume that it will not\napply cleanly elsewhere, but I figured a wrong sample patch was better than\na long paragraph describing the same thing. My read of more recent kernels\nis that this problem is still present, but could be mistaken.\n\nv2 - Updated title and tags based on feedback.\n\nSteve Rutherford (1):\n  idpf: Fix header clobber in IDPF with SWIOTLB enabled\n\n drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c | 9 +++++++--\n 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)"
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