[patch 14/30] NET: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation

[Chris Wright]

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We have seen a couple of __alloc_pages() failures due to
fragmentation, there is plenty of free memory but no large order pages
available.  I think the problem is in sock_alloc_send_pskb(), the
gfp_mask includes __GFP_REPEAT but its never used/passed to the page
allocator.  Shouldnt the gfp_mask be passed to alloc_skb() ?

Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

---
 net/core/sock.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.18.2.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6.18.2/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_p
 			goto failure;
 
 		if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) < sk->sk_sndbuf) {
-			skb = alloc_skb(header_len, sk->sk_allocation);
+			skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_mask);
 			if (skb) {
 				int npages;
 				int i;

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