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net: use skb_clone to avoid alloc_pages failure.
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1. new skb only need dst and ip address(v4 or v6).
2. skb_copy may need high order pages, which is very rare on long running server.

Signed-off-by: Junwei Zhang <linggao.zjw@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Zhang <martinbj2008@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Martin Zhang authored and David S. Miller committed Nov 17, 2015
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/core/neighbour.c
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Expand Up @@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ static void neigh_probe(struct neighbour *neigh)
struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek_tail(&neigh->arp_queue);
/* keep skb alive even if arp_queue overflows */
if (skb)
skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
write_unlock(&neigh->lock);
neigh->ops->solicit(neigh, skb);
atomic_inc(&neigh->probes);
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