netdev - [PATCH 3/3] batman-adv: Don't always reallocate the fragmentation skb head

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:38:49 +0100
From:   Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
To:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] batman-adv: Don't always reallocate the fragmentation skb head

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>

When a packet is fragmented by batman-adv, the original batman-adv header
is not modified. Only a new fragmentation is inserted between the original
one and the ethernet header. The code must therefore make sure that it has
a writable region of this size in the skbuff head.

But it is not useful to always reallocate the skbuff by this size even when
there would be more than enough headroom still in the skb. The reallocation
is just to costly during in this codepath.

Fixes: ee75ed88879a ("batman-adv: Fragment and send skbs larger than mtu")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
---
 net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c b/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
index 8de1fb567fd7..1f1f5b0873b2 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c
@@ -527,13 +527,14 @@ int batadv_frag_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		frag_header.no++;
 	}
 
-	/* Make room for the fragment header. */
-	if (batadv_skb_head_push(skb, header_size) < 0 ||
-	    pskb_expand_head(skb, header_size + ETH_HLEN, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
+	/* make sure that there is at least enough head for the fragmentation
+	 * and ethernet headers
+	 */
+	ret = skb_cow_head(skb, ETH_HLEN + header_size);
+	if (ret < 0)
 		goto put_primary_if;
-	}
 
+	skb_push(skb, header_size);
 	memcpy(skb->data, &frag_header, header_size);
 
 	/* Send the last fragment */
-- 
2.20.1