From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> A driver using dev_alloc_page() must not reuse a page that had to use emergency memory reserve.
Otherwise all packets using this page will be immediately dropped, unless for very specific sockets having SOCK_MEMALLOC bit set. This issue might be hard to debug, because only a fraction of the RX ring buffer would suffer from drops. Fixes: 75354148ce69 ("gianfar: Add paged allocation and Rx S/G") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.man...@freescale.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c index a6e7afa878befd1abe00404b2cd4becfa174d103..c1b6716679208a69bc66f017a68e5b6e35c60064 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c @@ -2948,7 +2948,7 @@ static bool gfar_add_rx_frag(struct gfar_rx_buff *rxb, u32 lstatus, } /* try reuse page */ - if (unlikely(page_count(page) != 1)) + if (unlikely(page_count(page) != 1 || page_is_pfmemalloc(page))) return false; /* change offset to the other half */