This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-don-t-depend-on-per-socket-memory-for-neighbour-discovery-messages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3fb47cb1a738f43c4d7b0f7497978d27575df804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Graf <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:37:01 +0200
Subject: ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery
messages
From: Thomas Graf <[email protected]>
[ 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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct n
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct icmp6hdr *hdr;
int len;
- int err;
u8 *opt;
if (!dev->addr_len)
@@ -466,14 +465,12 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct n
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;
}
@@ -501,6 +498,11 @@ struct sk_buff *ndisc_build_skb(struct n
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;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/ipv6-don-t-depend-on-per-socket-memory-for-neighbour-discovery-messages.patch
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