3.6.11.2 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 ] 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 Tested-by: David Oostdyk Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ed Cashin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- 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); -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/