Re: [PATCH v3] net/core/skbuff: fix passing wrong size to __alloc_skb

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:14:46 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > [1] WARNING in __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5f8/0x730 mm/page_alloc.c:5014
> > Call Trace:
> >  __alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:511 [inline]
> >  __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:524 [inline]
> >  alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:538 [inline]
> >  kmalloc_large_node+0x60/0x110 mm/slub.c:3999
> >  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x319/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:4496
> >  __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:150 [inline]
> >  __alloc_skb+0x4e4/0x5a0 net/core/skbuff.c:210
> >  __netdev_alloc_skb+0x70/0x400 net/core/skbuff.c:446
> >  netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:2832 [inline]
> >  qrtr_endpoint_post+0x84/0x11b0 net/qrtr/qrtr.c:442
> >  qrtr_tun_write_iter+0x11f/0x1a0 net/qrtr/tun.c:98
> >  call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1901 [inline]
> >  new_sync_write+0x426/0x650 fs/read_write.c:518
> >  vfs_write+0x791/0xa30 fs/read_write.c:605
> >  ksys_write+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:658
> >  do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
> >  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9  
> 
> Ah, by the way. Have you tried to seek for the root cause, why
> a request for such insanely large (at least 4 Mib) skb happens
> in QRTR? I don't believe it's intended to be like this.
> Now I feel that silencing this error with early return isn't
> really correct approach for this.

Right, IIUC Eric suggested we limit the length of the allocation 
to 64KB because that's the max reasonable skb length, and QRTR tun write
results in generating a single skb. That seems like a good approach.