Jason Baron
ca9f9cdc4d
Currently, alloc_skb_with_frags() will only fill (MAX_SKB_FRAGS - 1)
slots. I think it should use all MAX_SKB_FRAGS slots, as callers of
alloc_skb_with_frags() will size their allocation of frags based
on MAX_SKB_FRAGS.
This issue was discovered via a test patch that sets 'order' to 0
in alloc_skb_with_frags(), which effectively tests/simulates high
fragmentation. In this case sendmsg() on unix sockets will fail every
time for large allocations. If the PAGE_SIZE is 4K, then data_len will
request 68K or 17 pages, but alloc_skb_with_frags() can only allocate
64K in this case or 16 pages.
Fixes: 09c2c90705 ("net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to allocate bigger packets")
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922191957.2855612-1-jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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