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-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index c1a6f262636a..785daff48030 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -437,7 +437,11 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int len,
len += NET_SKB_PAD;
- if ((len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) ||
+ /* If requested length is either too small or too big,
+ * we use kmalloc() for skb->head allocation.
+ */
+ if (len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) ||
+ len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE) ||
(gfp_mask & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | GFP_DMA))) {
skb = __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
if (!skb)