Commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") ensured that skbs with data size lower than 1025 bytes will be kmalloc'ed to avoid excessive page cache fragmentation and memory consumption. However, the same issue can still be achieved manually via __netdev_alloc_skb(), where the check for size hasn't been changed. Mirror the condition from __napi_alloc_skb() to prevent from that.
Fixes: 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aloba...@pm.me> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index c1a6f262636a..785daff48030 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -437,7 +437,11 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int len, len += NET_SKB_PAD; - if ((len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) || + /* If requested length is either too small or too big, + * we use kmalloc() for skb->head allocation. + */ + if (len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) || + len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE) || (gfp_mask & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | GFP_DMA))) { skb = __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE); if (!skb) -- 2.30.0