| From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:45:43 +0100 | Subject | [63/74] aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs |
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3.2.43-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
[ Upstream commit 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 ]
Some network drivers use a non default hard_header_len
Transmitted skb should take into account dev->hard_header_len, or risk crashes or expensive reallocations.
In the case of aoe, lets reserve MAX_HEADER bytes.
David reported a crash in defxx driver, solved by this patch.
Reported-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu> Tested-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c index 887f68f..db30542 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c @@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ new_skb(ulong len) { struct sk_buff *skb; - skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC); + skb = alloc_skb(len + MAX_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC); if (skb) { + skb_reserve(skb, MAX_HEADER); skb_reset_mac_header(skb); skb_reset_network_header(skb); skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_AOE);
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