[PATCH net] hv_netvsc: Restore needed_headroom request

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Fri Feb 05 2016 - 11:29:18 EST


Commit c0eb454034aa ("hv_netvsc: Don't ask for additional head room in the
skb") got rid of needed_headroom setting for the driver. With the change I
hit the following issue trying to use ptkgen module:

[ 57.522021] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:1128!
[ 57.522021] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
...
[ 58.721068] Call Trace:
[ 58.721068] [<ffffffffa0144e86>] netvsc_start_xmit+0x4c6/0x8e0 [hv_netvsc]
...
[ 58.721068] [<ffffffffa02f87fc>] ? pktgen_finalize_skb+0x25c/0x2a0 [pktgen]
[ 58.721068] [<ffffffff814f5760>] ? __netdev_alloc_skb+0xc0/0x100
[ 58.721068] [<ffffffffa02f9907>] pktgen_thread_worker+0x257/0x1920 [pktgen]

Basically, we're calling skb_cow_head(skb, RNDIS_AND_PPI_SIZE) and crash on
if (skb_shared(skb))
BUG();

We probably need to restore needed_headroom setting (but shrunk to
RNDIS_AND_PPI_SIZE as we don't need more) to request the required headroom
space. In theory, it should not give us performance penalty.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 1d3a665..98e34fe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -1089,6 +1089,9 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
net->ethtool_ops = &ethtool_ops;
SET_NETDEV_DEV(net, &dev->device);

+ /* We always need headroom for rndis header */
+ net->needed_headroom = RNDIS_AND_PPI_SIZE;
+
/* Notify the netvsc driver of the new device */
memset(&device_info, 0, sizeof(device_info));
device_info.ring_size = ring_size;
--
2.5.0