macvtap: limit head length of skb allocated
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:00:40 +0000 (14:00 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Dec 2013 15:29:24 +0000 (07:29 -0800)
commita6c8afd6ef8037c550d646ddb195ad5f0b5bebcf
tree6ba3e2731e9efb0b3109d7211df36f4ecf3d88f1
parent4ccc92f8e5ae05dddd4cce8bee59cc37152b41cc
macvtap: limit head length of skb allocated

[ Upstream commit 16a3fa28630331e28208872fa5341ce210b901c7 ]

We currently use hdr_len as a hint of head length which is advertised by
guest. But when guest advertise a very big value, it can lead to an 64K+
allocating of kmalloc() which has a very high possibility of failure when host
memory is fragmented or under heavy stress. The huge hdr_len also reduce the
effect of zerocopy or even disable if a gso skb is linearized in guest.

To solves those issues, this patch introduces an upper limit (PAGE_SIZE) of the
head, which guarantees an order 0 allocation each time.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/macvtap.c