net: allow __skb_ext_alloc to sleep
mptcp calls this from the transmit side, from process context.
Allow a sleeping allocation instead of unconditional GFP_ATOMIC.
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 1bf0c3d..35a133c 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -6087,13 +6087,15 @@ static void *skb_ext_get_ptr(struct skb_ext *ext, enum skb_ext_id id)
/**
* __skb_ext_alloc - allocate a new skb extensions storage
*
+ * @flags: See kmalloc().
+ *
* Returns the newly allocated pointer. The pointer can later attached to a
* skb via __skb_ext_set().
* Note: caller must handle the skb_ext as an opaque data.
*/
-struct skb_ext *__skb_ext_alloc(void)
+struct skb_ext *__skb_ext_alloc(gfp_t flags)
{
- struct skb_ext *new = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_ext_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ struct skb_ext *new = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_ext_cache, flags);
if (new) {
memset(new->offset, 0, sizeof(new->offset));
@@ -6188,7 +6190,7 @@ void *skb_ext_add(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_ext_id id)
} else {
newoff = SKB_EXT_CHUNKSIZEOF(*new);
- new = __skb_ext_alloc();
+ new = __skb_ext_alloc(GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!new)
return NULL;
}