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aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs

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>
Eric Dumazet 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c

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drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c

@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ 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);