netdev - [PATCH RFC 5/6] net: orphan frags on receive

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Message-ID: <a3353f6235d877c6b2d300eb5a914dbc9b78824d.1336397823.git.mst@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2012 16:54:52 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 5/6] net: orphan frags on receive

zero copy packets are normally sent to the outside
network, but bridging, tun etc might loop them
back to host networking stack. If this happens
destructors will never be called, so orphan
the frags immediately on receive.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a2be59f..c0cdc00 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1630,6 +1630,8 @@ static inline int deliver_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			      struct packet_type *pt_prev,
 			      struct net_device *orig_dev)
 {
+	if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	atomic_inc(&skb->users);
 	return pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
 }
-- 
MST

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