[PATCH net 6/6] net/netlink: Correct the comment on netlink message max cap

Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay posted 6 patches 2 weeks ago
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[PATCH net 6/6] net/netlink: Correct the comment on netlink message max cap
Posted by Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay 2 weeks ago
From: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>

Since commit d35c99ff77ec ("netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from
netlink_dump()") the cap is 32KiB.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 0a9287fadb47a2afaf0babe675738bc43051c5a7..27979cefc06256bde052898d193ed99f710c2087 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk, bool lock_taken)
 		goto errout_skb;
 
 	/* NLMSG_GOODSIZE is small to avoid high order allocations being
-	 * required, but it makes sense to _attempt_ a 16K bytes allocation
+	 * required, but it makes sense to _attempt_ a 32KiB allocation
 	 * to reduce number of system calls on dump operations, if user
 	 * ever provided a big enough buffer.
 	 */
@@ -2301,7 +2301,7 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk, bool lock_taken)
 		goto errout_skb;
 
 	/* Trim skb to allocated size. User is expected to provide buffer as
-	 * large as max(min_dump_alloc, 16KiB (mac_recvmsg_len capped at
+	 * large as max(min_dump_alloc, 32KiB (max_recvmsg_len capped at
 	 * netlink_recvmsg())). dump will pack as many smaller messages as
 	 * could fit within the allocated skb. skb is typically allocated
 	 * with larger space than required (could be as much as near 2x the

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