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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:05:48 -0800 (PST)
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:27:10 +1100

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:27:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Actually, it's limited to sysctl_optmem_max :-)
> 
> Hiding the check in sock_kmalloc, clever :) In that case we don't
> have a problem.
> 
> But we should probably bring the check down to sysctl_optmem_max
> in ip6_flowlabel.c too since allocating 64K is still quite likely
> to fail and warn.

Good idea.