Thread (71 messages) 71 messages, 14 authors, 2007-11-18
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[PATCH 20/33] netvm: filter emergency skbs.

From: Peter Zijlstra <hidden>
Date: 2007-10-30 16:20:48
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

Toss all emergency packets not for a SOCK_MEMALLOC socket. This ensures our
precious memory reserve doesn't get stuck waiting for user-space.

The correctness of this approach relies on the fact that networks must be
assumed lossy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
---
 include/net/sock.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -930,6 +930,9 @@ static inline int sk_filter(struct sock 
 {
 	int err;
 	struct sk_filter *filter;
+
+	if (skb_emergency(skb) && !sk_has_memalloc(sk))
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	
 	err = security_sock_rcv_skb(sk, skb);
 	if (err)

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