From c05cdb1b864f548c0c3d8ae3b51264e6739a69b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:46:28 +0000 Subject: netlink: allow large data transfers from user-space I can hit ENOBUFS in the sendmsg() path with a large batch that is composed of many netlink messages. Here that limit is 8 MBytes of skbuff data area as kmalloc does not manage to get more than that. While discussing atomic rule-set for nftables with Patrick McHardy, we decided to put all rule-set updates that need to be applied atomically in one single batch to simplify the existing approach. However, as explained above, the existing netlink code limits us to a maximum of ~20000 rules that fit in one single batch without hitting ENOBUFS. iptables does not have such limitation as it is using vmalloc. This patch adds netlink_alloc_large_skb() which is only used in the netlink_sendmsg() path. It uses alloc_skb if the memory requested is <= one memory page, that should be the common case for most subsystems, else vmalloc for higher memory allocations. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/netlink') diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index d0b3dd60d386..68c167374394 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -750,6 +750,10 @@ static void netlink_skb_destructor(struct sk_buff *skb) skb->head = NULL; } #endif + if (is_vmalloc_addr(skb->head)) { + vfree(skb->head); + skb->head = NULL; + } if (skb->sk != NULL) sock_rfree(skb); } @@ -1420,6 +1424,35 @@ struct sock *netlink_getsockbyfilp(struct file *filp) return sock; } +static struct sk_buff *netlink_alloc_large_skb(unsigned int size) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb; + void *data; + + if (size <= NLMSG_GOODSIZE) + return alloc_skb(size, GFP_KERNEL); + + skb = alloc_skb_head(GFP_KERNEL); + if (skb == NULL) + return NULL; + + data = vmalloc(size); + if (data == NULL) + goto err; + + skb->head = data; + skb->data = data; + skb_reset_tail_pointer(skb); + skb->end = skb->tail + size; + skb->len = 0; + skb->destructor = netlink_skb_destructor; + + return skb; +err: + kfree_skb(skb); + return NULL; +} + /* * Attach a skb to a netlink socket. * The caller must hold a reference to the destination socket. On error, the @@ -1510,7 +1543,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *netlink_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t allocation) return skb; delta = skb->end - skb->tail; - if (delta * 2 < skb->truesize) + if (is_vmalloc_addr(skb->head) || delta * 2 < skb->truesize) return skb; if (skb_shared(skb)) { @@ -2096,7 +2129,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock, if (len > sk->sk_sndbuf - 32) goto out; err = -ENOBUFS; - skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_KERNEL); + skb = netlink_alloc_large_skb(len); if (skb == NULL) goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3