On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 18:32 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Hmm, it seems sk_filter() can return -ENOMEM because skb has the
> pfmemalloc() set.
>
> One TCP socket keeps retransmitting an SKB via loopback, and TCP stack
> drops the packet again and again.
sock_init_data() sets sk->sk_allocation to GFP_KERNEL
Shouldnt it use (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) instead ?
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index bc131d4..76c4b39 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ void sk_set_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
{
sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
sk->sk_allocation |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+ sk->sk_allocation &= ~__GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
static_key_slow_inc(&memalloc_socks);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_set_memalloc);
@@ -294,6 +295,7 @@ void sk_clear_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
{
sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
sk->sk_allocation &= ~__GFP_MEMALLOC;
+ sk->sk_allocation |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
static_key_slow_dec(&memalloc_socks);
/*
@@ -2230,7 +2232,7 @@ void sock_init_data(struct socket *sock, struct sock *sk)
init_timer(&sk->sk_timer);
- sk->sk_allocation = GFP_KERNEL;
+ sk->sk_allocation = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
sk->sk_rcvbuf = sysctl_rmem_default;
sk->sk_sndbuf = sysctl_wmem_default;
sk->sk_state = TCP_CLOSE;
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