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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2013-09-03 13:37:01 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-10-26 21:05:56 +0100
commit7676306f0e6a3e07fbedd55ff958dda9877d70f2 (patch)
treef550e26e9053096710a656dbaccac176f3537623 /net
parent60c98d1e5c84a40ff062773ab403d1dace95019b (diff)
ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
[ Upstream commit 25a6e6b84fba601eff7c28d30da8ad7cfbef0d43 ] Allocating skbs when sending out neighbour discovery messages currently uses sock_alloc_send_skb() based on a per net namespace socket and thus share a socket wmem buffer space. If a netdevice is temporarily unable to transmit due to carrier loss or for other reasons, the queued up ndisc messages will cosnume all of the wmem space and will thus prevent from any more skbs to be allocated even for netdevices that are able to transmit packets. The number of neighbour discovery messages sent is very limited, use of alloc_skb() bypasses the socket wmem buffer size enforcement while the manual call to skb_set_owner_w() maintains the socket reference needed for the IPv6 output path. This patch has orginally been posted by Eric Dumazet in a modified form. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ndisc.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 9ffc37f600a..bc55358fc78 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -447,7 +447,6 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct net_device *dev,
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct icmp6hdr *hdr;
int len;
- int err;
u8 *opt;
if (!dev->addr_len)
@@ -457,14 +456,12 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct net_device *dev,
if (llinfo)
len += ndisc_opt_addr_space(dev);
- skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk,
- (MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) +
- len + LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev)),
- 1, &err);
+ skb = alloc_skb((MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) +
+ len + LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev)), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb) {
ND_PRINTK0(KERN_ERR
- "ICMPv6 ND: %s() failed to allocate an skb, err=%d.\n",
- __func__, err);
+ "ICMPv6 ND: %s() failed to allocate an skb.\n",
+ __func__);
return NULL;
}
@@ -492,6 +489,11 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct net_device *dev,
csum_partial(hdr,
len, 0));
+ /* Manually assign socket ownership as we avoid calling
+ * sock_alloc_send_pskb() to bypass wmem buffer limits
+ */
+ skb_set_owner_w(skb, sk);
+
return skb;
}