The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 73c3d4812b4c755efeca0140f606f83772a39ce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:01:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] libceph: gracefully handle large reply messages from the mon
We preallocate a few of the message types we get back from the mon. If we
get a larger message than we are expecting, fall back to trying to allocate
a new one instead of blindly using the one we have.
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <ilya.dryomov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ceph/mon_client.c b/net/ceph/mon_client.c
index 067d3af2eaf6..61fcfc304f68 100644
--- a/net/ceph/mon_client.c
+++ b/net/ceph/mon_client.c
@@ -1181,7 +1181,15 @@ static struct ceph_msg *mon_alloc_msg(struct ceph_connection *con,
if (!m) {
pr_info("alloc_msg unknown type %d\n", type);
*skip = 1;
+ } else if (front_len > m->front_alloc_len) {
+ pr_warning("mon_alloc_msg front %d > prealloc %d (%u#%llu)\n",
+ front_len, m->front_alloc_len,
+ (unsigned int)con->peer_name.type,
+ le64_to_cpu(con->peer_name.num));
+ ceph_msg_put(m);
+ m = ceph_msg_new(type, front_len, GFP_NOFS, false);
}
+
return m;
}
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