netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: md5: percpu tcp_md5sig

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:34:09 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Crestez Dan Leonard <cdleonard@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: md5: percpu tcp_md5sig_pool must not span pages

On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 09:33 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> percpu tcp_md5sig_pool contains memory blobs that ultimately
> go through sg_set_buf().
> 
> -> sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(buf), buflen, offset_in_page(buf));
> 
> This requires that whole area is in a physically contiguous portion
> of memory.
> 
> Given that alloc_percpu() can use vmalloc() areas, we need to make sure
> tcp_md5sig_pool is allocated from a single page.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Fixes: 765cf9976e93 ("tcp: md5: remove one indirection level in tcp_md5sig_pool")
> Reported-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <cdleonard@...il.com>
> ---

Self Nack, we definitely need to avoid vmalloc() in the first place.


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