This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled macvtap: limit head length of skb allocated to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: macvtap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 869831b11cf4bb5ec2d80294d68367bb152d9fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:00:40 +0800 Subject: macvtap: limit head length of skb allocated From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c @@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m const struct iovec *iv, unsigned long total_len, size_t count, int noblock) { + int good_linear = SKB_MAX_HEAD(NET_IP_ALIGN); struct sk_buff *skb; struct macvlan_dev *vlan; unsigned long len = total_len; @@ -703,6 +704,8 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m if (m && m->msg_control && sock_flag(&q->sk, SOCK_ZEROCOPY)) { copylen = vnet_hdr.hdr_len ? vnet_hdr.hdr_len : GOODCOPY_LEN; + if (copylen > good_linear) + copylen = good_linear; linear = copylen; if (iov_pages(iv, vnet_hdr_len + copylen, count) <= MAX_SKB_FRAGS) @@ -711,7 +714,10 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct m if (!zerocopy) { copylen = len; - linear = vnet_hdr.hdr_len; + if (vnet_hdr.hdr_len > good_linear) + linear = good_linear; + else + linear = vnet_hdr.hdr_len; } skb = macvtap_alloc_skb(&q->sk, NET_IP_ALIGN, copylen, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/macvtap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch queue-3.10/tuntap-limit-head-length-of-skb-allocated.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html