Re: kernel 3.2.27 on arm: WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2109 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1d4/0x68c()

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 14:37 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index cdc2859..f6c1f52 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -1053,11 +1053,22 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	u8 *data;
> -	int size = nhead + skb_end_offset(skb) + ntail;
> +	unsigned int tail_offset = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - skb->head;
> +	int size = nhead + ntail;
>  	long off;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(nhead < 0);
>  
> +	/* callers using nhead == 0 and ntail == 0 wants to get a fresh copy,
> +	 * so allocate same amount of memory (skb_end_offset)
> +	 * For others, they want extra head or tail against the currently
> +	 * used portion of header (skb->head -> skb_tail_pointer).
> +	 * But we dont shrink the head.
> +	 */
> +	if (size)
> +		size += tail_offset;
> +	size = max_t(int, size, skb_end_offset(skb));
> +
>  

This can be factorized to :

	size = tail_offset + nhead + ntail;
	size = max_t(int, size, skb_end_offset(skb));