Re: PROBLEM: System call 'sendmsg' of process ospfd (quagga)causes kernel oops

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:23:43PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> You're right, if reallocations are OK in all paths.

If it wasn't OK then making needed_headroom constant won't work
anyway.

> We'll need to change LL_RESERVED_SPACE() / LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EXTRA() /
> LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE() macros and provide the [read once] values, instead
> of a [read once] pointer to values.

I'm not sure what you mean here.  I don't see any need to change
these macros.  All we need is to save the value in a local variable:

	hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);

	skb = alloc_skb(hh_len + len);
	skb_reserve(skb, hh_len);

Cheers,
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