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SubjectRe: net/sctp: vmalloc allocation failure in sctp_setsockopt/xt_alloc_table_info
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

[ trimming CCs ]

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:47:10PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure I agree with that. Generally speaking it seems like the right
> > > thing to do, if you want to avoid filling logs with warnings, but this is the
> > > sort of error that is going to be accompanied by severe service interruption.
> > > I'd rather see a reason behind that in the logs, than just have it occur
> > > silently.
> >
> > Its not silent -- the setsockopt call will fail and userspace should
> > display an error.
> >
> Thats not true. If the OOM succedes in freeing enough memory to fulfill the
> request the setsockopt may complete without error, you're just left with a
> killed process...somewhere. Thats seems a bit dodgy to me

We should prevent OOM killer from running in first place (GFP_NORETRY should work).

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