Re: [PATCH v3] net/core/skbuff: fix passing wrong size to __alloc_skb

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:14:46 +0000 Alexander Lobakin wrote:

quoted

[1] WARNING in __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5f8/0x730 mm/page_alloc.c:5014
Call Trace:
 __alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:511 [inline]
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:524 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:538 [inline]
 kmalloc_large_node+0x60/0x110 mm/slub.c:3999
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x319/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:4496
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:150 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x4e4/0x5a0 net/core/skbuff.c:210
 __netdev_alloc_skb+0x70/0x400 net/core/skbuff.c:446
 netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:2832 [inline]
 qrtr_endpoint_post+0x84/0x11b0 net/qrtr/qrtr.c:442
 qrtr_tun_write_iter+0x11f/0x1a0 net/qrtr/tun.c:98
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1901 [inline]
 new_sync_write+0x426/0x650 fs/read_write.c:518
 vfs_write+0x791/0xa30 fs/read_write.c:605
 ksys_write+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:658
 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9  

Ah, by the way. Have you tried to seek for the root cause, why
a request for such insanely large (at least 4 Mib) skb happens
in QRTR? I don't believe it's intended to be like this.
Now I feel that silencing this error with early return isn't
really correct approach for this.

Right, IIUC Eric suggested we limit the length of the allocation 
to 64KB because that's the max reasonable skb length, and QRTR tun write
results in generating a single skb. That seems like a good approach.