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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2013-03-27 18:28:41 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-03-28 14:29:47 -0400 |
| commit | 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 (patch) | |
| tree | ca4e9973e799ff90633b213556db45b19271c57c | |
| parent | 30de83a00d4e801741cd974fa6a75c77b3a579e6 (diff) | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c index 25ef5c014fca..92b6d7c51e39 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c +++ b/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); |