Discussion:
[PATCH net] bna: fix skb->truesize underestimation
Eric Dumazet
2014-10-17 19:45:55 UTC
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From: Eric Dumazet <***@google.com>

skb->truesize is not meant to be tracking amount of used bytes
in an skb, but amount of reserved/consumed bytes in memory.

For instance, if we use a single byte in last page fragment,
we have to account the full size of the fragment.

skb->truesize can be very different from skb->len, that has
a very specific safety purpose.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <***@google.com>
Cc: Rasesh Mody <***@qlogic.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c
index 153cafac323c..c3861de9dc81 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ bnad_cq_setup_skb_frags(struct bna_rcb *rcb, struct sk_buff *skb,

len = (vec == nvecs) ?
last_fraglen : unmap->vector.len;
+ skb->truesize += unmap->vector.len;
totlen += len;

skb_fill_page_desc(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags,
@@ -563,7 +564,6 @@ bnad_cq_setup_skb_frags(struct bna_rcb *rcb, struct sk_buff *skb,

skb->len += totlen;
skb->data_len += totlen;
- skb->truesize += totlen;
}

static inline void
David Miller
2014-10-18 03:56:58 UTC
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From: Eric Dumazet <***@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:45:55 -0700
Post by Eric Dumazet
skb->truesize is not meant to be tracking amount of used bytes
in an skb, but amount of reserved/consumed bytes in memory.
For instance, if we use a single byte in last page fragment,
we have to account the full size of the fragment.
skb->truesize can be very different from skb->len, that has
a very specific safety purpose.
Applied.

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