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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:16:51 +0100
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy
 and handle errors
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On 03/19/2014 10:07 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't
> orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that
> as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>

> ---
> +	if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(to, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
> +		skb_tx_error(to);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

Did you consider calling skb_tx_error() for Netlink message
allocation failures for the upcall as well? That memory pressure
is currently not reported back.