Some network drivers use a non default hard_header_len
Transmitted skb should take into account dev->hard_header_len, or risk
crashes or expensive reallocations.
In the case of aoe, lets reserve MAX_HEADER bytes.
David reported a crash in defxx driver, solved by this patch.
Reported-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu>
Tested-by: David Oostdyk <daveo@ll.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
- skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ skb = alloc_skb(len + MAX_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (skb) {
+ skb_reserve(skb, MAX_HEADER);
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_AOE);