netdev - [PATCH 19/31] netvm: filter emergency skbs.

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Date:	Thu,  1 Oct 2009 19:38:25 +0530
From:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 19/31] netvm: filter emergency skbs.

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> 

Toss all emergency packets not for a SOCK_MEMALLOC socket. This ensures our
precious memory reserve doesn't get stuck waiting for user-space.

The correctness of this approach relies on the fact that networks must be
assumed lossy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
---
 net/core/filter.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: mmotm/net/core/filter.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm.orig/net/core/filter.c
+++ mmotm/net/core/filter.c
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ int sk_filter(struct sock *sk, struct sk
 	int err;
 	struct sk_filter *filter;
 
+	if (skb_emergency(skb) && !sk_has_memalloc(sk))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	err = security_sock_rcv_skb(sk, skb);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
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