This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tuntap: limit head length of skb allocated

to the 3.10-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:
     tuntap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From c1999ca30fe2477d8cad6ee33ab40a86f11978da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:00:39 +0800
Subject: tuntap: limit head length of skb allocated

From: Jason Wang <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 96f8d9ecf227638c89f98ccdcdd50b569891976c ]

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.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s
        struct sk_buff *skb;
        size_t len = total_len, align = NET_SKB_PAD, linear;
        struct virtio_net_hdr gso = { 0 };
+       int good_linear;
        int offset = 0;
        int copylen;
        bool zerocopy = false;
@@ -1109,12 +1110,16 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s
                        return -EINVAL;
        }
 
+       good_linear = SKB_MAX_HEAD(align);
+
        if (msg_control) {
                /* There are 256 bytes to be copied in skb, so there is
                 * enough room for skb expand head in case it is used.
                 * The rest of the buffer is mapped from userspace.
                 */
                copylen = gso.hdr_len ? gso.hdr_len : GOODCOPY_LEN;
+               if (copylen > good_linear)
+                       copylen = good_linear;
                linear = copylen;
                if (iov_pages(iv, offset + copylen, count) <= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
                        zerocopy = true;
@@ -1122,7 +1127,10 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_s
 
        if (!zerocopy) {
                copylen = len;
-               linear = gso.hdr_len;
+               if (gso.hdr_len > good_linear)
+                       linear = good_linear;
+               else
+                       linear = gso.hdr_len;
        }
 
        skb = tun_alloc_skb(tfile, align, copylen, linear, noblock);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/macvtap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch
queue-3.10/tuntap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch
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