[PATCH 20/33] netvm: filter emergency skbs.
From: Peter Zijlstra <hidden>
Date: 2007-10-30 16:20:48
Also in:
linux-mm, lkml
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) --