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Message-ID: <20120509151202.GB20474@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 18:12:02 +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: Re: [PATCH RFC 5/6] net: orphan frags on receive
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:54:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:54 +0100, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think this deceptively simply patch is actually the meat of the
> series.
> It's been a long time since I dug into the bridging code. Am I right
> that this function is only reached when an SKB is going to be delivered
> locally and not when forwarding to another port on the bridge?
>
> Ian.
I think so - bridge uses netdev_rx_handler_unregister
so it does not go through packet handlers.
> >
> > 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);
> > }
>
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