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authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>2013-11-13 14:00:40 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-08 07:29:12 -0800
commitebee20ff2444c1b65885ab1869001922e0a1f969 (patch)
tree795e648f0bc3c8527ba62251cc98ca645098a296 /Documentation
parentd485b5173b10de877781e6cabf39bee3f0bca5dc (diff)
macvtap: limit head length of skb allocated
[ Upstream commit 16a3fa28630331e28208872fa5341ce210b901c7 ] We currently use hdr_len as a hint of head length which is advertised by guest. But when guest advertise a very big value, it can lead to an 64K+ allocating of kmalloc() which has a very high possibility of failure when host memory is fragmented or under heavy stress. The huge hdr_len also reduce the effect of zerocopy or even disable if a gso skb is linearized in guest. To solves those issues, this patch introduces an upper limit (PAGE_SIZE) of the head, which guarantees an order 0 allocation each time. Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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