Re: [bpf-next V5 PATCH 11/15] page_pool: refurbish version of page_pool code
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-26 15:19:46
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-26 15:19:46
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:55:37 -0700 Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
rcu grace period before freeing huge quantitites of pages is problematic and could be used by syzbot to OOM the host.
Okay. Adjusted code to empty ring "right-way" when driver calls destroy, and then only RCU delay/free the page_pool pointer and also free/empty ring for pages of any in-flight producers. -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer