linux-kernel - Re: regression with today's linux-next

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Message-ID: <1431551093.27831.5.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 14:04:53 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	balbi@...com
Cc:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Subject: Re: regression with today's linux-next

On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 13:27 -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> your commit 9451980a6646 (net: Use cached copy of pfmemalloc to avoid
> accessing page) regresses most OMAP-based boards with a NULL pointer
> dereference.
> 
> Below you can find git bisect log and a serial console capture of the
> problem.

Are you using jumbo frames ?

Please try :

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index d67e612bf0ef..701318378142 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -414,9 +414,14 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int len,
 	len += NET_SKB_PAD;
 
 	if ((len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) ||
-	    (gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | GFP_DMA)))
-		return __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
-
+	    (gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | GFP_DMA))) {
+		skb = __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+		if (skb) {
+			skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
+			skb->dev = dev;
+		}
+		return skb;
+	}
 	len += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
 	len = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(len);
 




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