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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>
Eric Dumazet 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 4 1
      net/ipv6/mcast.c

+ 4 - 1
net/ipv6/mcast.c

@@ -1356,7 +1356,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *mld_newpack(struct net_device *dev, int size)
 		     IPV6_TLV_PADN, 0 };
 		     IPV6_TLV_PADN, 0 };
 
 
 	/* we assume size > sizeof(ra) here */
 	/* 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)
 	if (!skb)
 		return NULL;
 		return NULL;