From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:27:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1370273267.24311.151.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1370272203-25062-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> <1370273152.24311.150.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kaber@trash.net To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:57221 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758040Ab3FCP14 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:27:56 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f171.google.com with SMTP id z11so5876481pdj.16 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1370273152.24311.150.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 08:25 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 17:10 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > > + if (size <= PAGE_SIZE) > > + return alloc_skb(size, GFP_KERNEL); > > + > > That would be > > if (size < SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) > > or > > if (size < SKB_MAX_HEAD(0)) > I shoule have used '<=' instead of '<' or if (size <= NLMSG_GOODSIZE)