From: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:56:24 +0200

> From: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Make skb_seq_read unmap the last fragment
> 
> Having walked through the entire skbuff, skb_seq_read would leave the
> last fragment mapped.  As a consequence, the unwary caller would leak
> kmaps, and proceed with preempt_count off by one. The only (kind of
> non-intuitive) workaround is to use skb_seq_read_abort.
> 
> This patch makes sure skb_seq_read always unmaps frag_data after having
> cycled through the skb's paged part.
> 
> Signed-off-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks for finding and fixing this bug.

Patch applied, thanks again Olaf.
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