Re: [PATCH v2] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors

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On 03/19/2014 10:07 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't
orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that
as well.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxxxxx>

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+	if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(to, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
+		skb_tx_error(to);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}

Did you consider calling skb_tx_error() for Netlink message
allocation failures for the upcall as well? That memory pressure
is currently not reported back.
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