[PATCH 072/102] aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 8 09:50:27 UTC 2013


3.5.7.10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

commit 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 upstream.

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 at ll.mit.edu>
Tested-by: David Oostdyk <daveo at ll.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin at coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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);
-- 
1.8.1.2





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