From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: PROBLEM: System call 'sendmsg' of process ospfd (quagga) causes kernel oops Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20111020.162100.936624966779816387.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20111019080807.GA25099@gondor.apana.org.au> <20111020.053050.383972361986316046.davem@davemloft.net> <20111020093541.GA3024@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, evonlanthen@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, timo.teras@iki.fi To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111020093541.GA3024@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Herbert Xu Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:35:41 +0200 > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:30:50AM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> >> So I'm a little confused what your suggestion for rc10 really >> is :-) > > I meant his first initial patch :) > > While it is suboptimal in the sense that should the value of > needed_headroom increase we'll end up constantly reallocating > skbs, I believe that it is at least semantically correct. Ok, I applied Eric's patch which removes the dynamic changing of the needed_headroom in IP_GRE. Thanks everyone!