Re: net: non contiguous allocations passed to build_skb

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 17:28 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hey Eric,
> 
> Your commit 79930f5892e ("net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve") assumes that
> build_skb() will only handle contiguous allocations because of the
> virt_to_head_page().
> 
> However, netlink_sendmsg() calls build_skb() with vmalloc()ed memory, causing:

gosh. netlink & vmalloc() striked again.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/