[net-next PATCH] net: Reserve skb headroom and set skb->dev even if using __alloc_skb
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Wed May 13 15:07:44 PDT 2015
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 13:34:13 -0700
> When I had inlined __alloc_rx_skb into __netdev_alloc_skb and
> __napi_alloc_skb I had overlooked the fact that there was a return in the
> __alloc_rx_skb. As a result we weren't reserving headroom or setting the
> skb->dev in certain cases. This change corrects that by adding a couple of
> jump labels to jump to depending on __alloc_skb either succeeding or failing.
>
> Fixes: 9451980a6646 ("net: Use cached copy of pfmemalloc to avoid accessing page")
> Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
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