netdev - Re: [PATCH] phonet: Check input from user before allocating

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Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:59:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	remi@...lab.net, levinsasha928@...il.com,
	remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com, davej@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phonet: Check input from user before allocating

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:53:17 +0200

> Not that AF_UNIX does nothing in this respect, it can use order-XX pages
> for large datagrams.
> 
> (I beleve I sent a patch some time ago to address this point)

Yes, on the datagram side it's a problem.

For stream AF_UNIX sockets the allocation is capped at SKB_MAX_ALLOC
which evaluates to an order 2 page.

Overall, AF_UNIX ought to be easy to deal with since all of the
routines that copy data between userspace and SKBs can handle
segmented SKBs and thus most of the work is converting over to
sock_alloc_send_pskb() and setting data_len how we set the normal
length of sock_alloc_skb_skb() currently.

Anyways, feel free to resubmit your patch.
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