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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2013-08-28 01:07:25 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-08-29 16:01:05 -0400
commit1f324e38870cc09659cf23bc626f1b8869e201f2 (patch)
tree703e667d870347854baf534e7186771b0ad74353 /net
parentc27c9322d015dc1d9dfdf31724fca71c0476c4d1 (diff)
downloadlinux-1f324e38870cc09659cf23bc626f1b8869e201f2.tar.bz2
ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
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, simply use alloc_skb() and don't depend on any socket wmem space any longer. 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> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ndisc.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
index 04d31c2fbef1..5cb98df966c2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -370,16 +370,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *ndisc_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
{
int hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
int tlen = dev->needed_tailroom;
- struct sock *sk = dev_net(dev)->ipv6.ndisc_sk;
struct sk_buff *skb;
- int err;
- skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk,
- hlen + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + len + tlen,
- 1, &err);
+ skb = alloc_skb(hlen + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + len + tlen, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb) {
- ND_PRINTK(0, err, "ndisc: %s failed to allocate an skb, err=%d\n",
- __func__, err);
+ ND_PRINTK(0, err, "ndisc: %s failed to allocate an skb\n",
+ __func__);
return NULL;
}