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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2013-09-03 13:37:01 +0200
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2014-05-19 07:53:54 +0200
commit8eb7263e80167c089c6e80fda94bfbebbecee9b5 (patch)
tree3dc8a15812efbdc3637c13d1fd0f8150d526a830
parentede46183818537a2da12ad7bed33d8f2d3cb35d0 (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: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
-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 f74e4e2cdd06..752da217031b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -449,7 +449,6 @@ 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)
@@ -459,14 +458,12 @@ 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;
}
@@ -494,6 +491,11 @@ 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;
}