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Revision 87c084a980325d877dc7e388b8f2f26d5d3b4d01 authored by Eric Dumazet on 07 February 2013, 14:00:34 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 08 February 2013, 06:49:49 UTC
Andrew Savchenko reported a DNS failure and we diagnosed that
some UDP sockets were unable to send more packets because their
sk_wmem_alloc was corrupted after a while (tx_queue column in
following trace)

$ cat /proc/net/udp
  sl  local_address rem_address   st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt   uid  timeout inode ref pointer drops
...
  459: 00000000:0270 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 4507 2 ffff88003d612380 0
  466: 00000000:0277 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 4802 2 ffff88003d613180 0
  470: 076A070A:007B 00000000:0000 07 FFFF4600:00000000 00:00000000 00000000   123        0 5552 2 ffff880039974380 0
  470: 010213AC:007B 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 4986 2 ffff88003dbd3180 0
  470: 010013AC:007B 00000000:0000 07 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 4985 2 ffff88003dbd2e00 0
  470: 00FCA8C0:007B 00000000:0000 07 FFFFFB00:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 4984 2 ffff88003dbd2a80 0
...

Playing with skb->truesize is tricky, especially when
skb is attached to a socket, as we can fool memory charging.

Just remove this code, its not worth trying to be ultra
precise in xmit path.

Reported-by: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 87c084a980325d877dc7e388b8f2f26d5d3b4d01 authored by Eric Dumazet on 07 February 2013, 14:00:34 UTC
l2tp: dont play with skb->truesize
Tip revision: 87c084a
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