Re: [PATCH v2] ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Tue,  3 Sep 2013 13:37:01 +0200

> Allocating skbs when sending out neighbour discovery messages
> currently uses sock_alloc_send_skb() based on a per net namespace
> socket and thus share a socket wmem buffer space.
> 
> If a netdevice is temporarily unable to transmit due to carrier
> loss or for other reasons, the queued up ndisc messages will cosnume
> all of the wmem space and will thus prevent from any more skbs to
> be allocated even for netdevices that are able to transmit packets.
> 
> The number of neighbour discovery messages sent is very limited,
> use of alloc_skb() bypasses the socket wmem buffer size enforcement
> while the manual call to skb_set_owner_w() maintains the socket
> reference needed for the IPv6 output path.
> 
> This patch has orginally been posted by Eric Dumazet in a modified
> form.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Applied, and queued up for -stable along with Cong Wang's ndisc_send_rs()
locking change.

Thanks.