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-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c31
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c6
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 456ead534e10..3cfff2a3d651 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -280,13 +280,14 @@ nodata:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
/**
- * build_skb - build a network buffer
+ * __build_skb - build a network buffer
* @data: data buffer provided by caller
- * @frag_size: size of fragment, or 0 if head was kmalloced
+ * @frag_size: size of data, or 0 if head was kmalloced
*
* Allocate a new &sk_buff. Caller provides space holding head and
* skb_shared_info. @data must have been allocated by kmalloc() only if
- * @frag_size is 0, otherwise data should come from the page allocator.
+ * @frag_size is 0, otherwise data should come from the page allocator
+ * or vmalloc()
* The return is the new skb buffer.
* On a failure the return is %NULL, and @data is not freed.
* Notes :
@@ -297,7 +298,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
* before giving packet to stack.
* RX rings only contains data buffers, not full skbs.
*/
-struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
+struct sk_buff *__build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
{
struct skb_shared_info *shinfo;
struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -311,11 +312,6 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail));
skb->truesize = SKB_TRUESIZE(size);
- if (frag_size) {
- skb->head_frag = 1;
- if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc)
- skb->pfmemalloc = 1;
- }
atomic_set(&skb->users, 1);
skb->head = data;
skb->data = data;
@@ -332,6 +328,23 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
return skb;
}
+
+/* build_skb() is wrapper over __build_skb(), that specifically
+ * takes care of skb->head and skb->pfmemalloc
+ * This means that if @frag_size is not zero, then @data must be backed
+ * by a page fragment, not kmalloc() or vmalloc()
+ */
+struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb = __build_skb(data, frag_size);
+
+ if (skb && frag_size) {
+ skb->head_frag = 1;
+ if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc)
+ skb->pfmemalloc = 1;
+ }
+ return skb;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(build_skb);
struct netdev_alloc_cache {
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 19909d0786a2..ec4adbdcb9b4 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1629,13 +1629,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *netlink_alloc_large_skb(unsigned int size,
if (data == NULL)
return NULL;
- skb = build_skb(data, size);
+ skb = __build_skb(data, size);
if (skb == NULL)
vfree(data);
- else {
- skb->head_frag = 0;
+ else
skb->destructor = netlink_skb_destructor;
- }
return skb;
}