4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 22c2ad616b74f3de2256b242572ab449d031d941 upstream. In some testing scenarios, dst/route cache can fill up so quickly that even an explicit GC call occasionally fails to clean it up. This leads to sporadically failing calls to dst_alloc and "network unreachable" errors to the user, which is confusing. This patch adds a diagnostic message to make the cause of the failure easier to determine. Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.19.x Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dst.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -98,8 +98,12 @@ void *dst_alloc(struct dst_ops *ops, str struct dst_entry *dst; if (ops->gc && dst_entries_get_fast(ops) > ops->gc_thresh) { - if (ops->gc(ops)) + if (ops->gc(ops)) { + printk_ratelimited(KERN_NOTICE "Route cache is full: " + "consider increasing sysctl " + "net.ipv[4|6].route.max_size.\n"); return NULL; + } } dst = kmem_cache_alloc(ops->kmem_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);