Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2010-09-29

Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add a recursion limit in xmit path

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2010-09-29 20:23:04

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:04:32 +0200
[PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add a recursion limit in xmit path

As tunnel devices are going to be lockless, we need to make sure a
misconfigured machine wont enter an infinite loop.

Add a percpu variable, and limit to three the number of stacked xmits.

Reported-by: Jesse Gross <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Applied.
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