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ipv6: avoid high order allocations

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With mtu=9000, mld_newpack() use order-2 GFP_ATOMIC allocations, that
are very unreliable, on machines where PAGE_SIZE=4K

Limit allocated skbs to be at most one page. (order-0 allocations)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2010-06-05 03:03:30 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit 72e09ad107
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@ -1356,7 +1356,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *mld_newpack(struct net_device *dev, int size)
IPV6_TLV_PADN, 0 };
/* we assume size > sizeof(ra) here */
skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, size + LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev), 1, &err);
size += LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev);
/* limit our allocations to order-0 page */
size = min_t(int, size, SKB_MAX_ORDER(0, 0));
skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, size, 1, &err);
if (!skb)
return NULL;