From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb() Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:18 +0800 Message-ID: <4FC71306.50806@redhat.com> References: <20120530054702.6146.8503.stgit@amd-6168-8-1.englab.nay.redhat.com> <1338360383.2760.84.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20120530.030205.1337682162603770949.davem@davemloft.net> <4FC708EE.2020908@redhat.com> <20120531060201.GA13158@redhat.com> <4FC70BA8.5060200@redhat.com> <1338445232.2760.1171.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1338445232.2760.1171.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 05/31/2012 02:20 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 14:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > >> Not affected, only code duplication. It's no harm the check the data_len >> again for packet sockets, so better to unify the code and fix the issue >> in one place? > As a matter of fact, we currently allocate order-0 pages, but it could > be nice trying to use order-1 or order-2 pages, on arches where > PAGE_SIZE is so small (4096 bytes) > > So lets do this test in sock_alloc_send_pskb() to allow future changes. > > af_unix is kind of special, because it tries to lower risk of high order > linear allocation failures. And for small sizes, it wants linear skbs to > have no performance regression (prior kernels were allocating linear > skbs) > Thanks for the clarification, would post V2. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/