tuntap: limit head length of skb allocated
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:00:39 +0000 (14:00 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Dec 2013 15:29:24 +0000 (07:29 -0800)
commit4ccc92f8e5ae05dddd4cce8bee59cc37152b41cc
tree7302377c7efe7bbc6ad5fd6572319b4f6d4345bf
parent2d02839a2b8439eab70e53401029c7a6c0629ffd
tuntap: limit head length of skb allocated

[ Upstream commit 96f8d9ecf227638c89f98ccdcdd50b569891976c ]

We currently use hdr_len as a hint of head length which is advertised by
guest. But when guest advertise a very big value, it can lead to an 64K+
allocating of kmalloc() which has a very high possibility of failure when host
memory is fragmented or under heavy stress. The huge hdr_len also reduce the
effect of zerocopy or even disable if a gso skb is linearized in guest.

To solves those issues, this patch introduces an upper limit (PAGE_SIZE) of the
head, which guarantees an order 0 allocation each time.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/tun.c