From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 10:03:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ipv6: avoid high order allocations
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~1353^2~130
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=72e09ad107e7;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

ipv6: avoid high order allocations

With mtu=9000, mld_newpack() use order-2 GFP_ATOMIC allocations, that
are very unreliable, on machines where PAGE_SIZE=4K

Limit allocated skbs to be at most one page. (order-0 allocations)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
index 59f1881968c7..ab1622d7d409 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -1356,7 +1356,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *mld_newpack(struct net_device *dev, int size)
 		     IPV6_TLV_PADN, 0 };
 
 	/* we assume size > sizeof(ra) here */
-	skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, size + LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev), 1, &err);
+	size += LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev);
+	/* limit our allocations to order-0 page */
+	size = min_t(int, size, SKB_MAX_ORDER(0, 0));
+	skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, size, 1, &err);
 
 	if (!skb)
 		return NULL;