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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 035db6350037..fbe2c473a06a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ We cannot track such dead loops during route installation, it is infeasible task. The most general solutions would be to keep skb->encapsulation counter (sort of local ttl), - and silently drop packet when it expires. It is the best + and silently drop packet when it expires. It is a good solution, but it supposes maintaing new variable in ALL skb, even if no tunneling is used. - Current solution: HARD_TX_LOCK lock breaks dead loops. - - + Current solution: xmit_recursion breaks dead loops. This is a percpu + counter, since when we enter the first ndo_xmit(), cpu migration is + forbidden. We force an exit if this counter reaches RECURSION_LIMIT 2. Networking dead loops would not kill routers, but would really kill network. IP hop limit plays role of "t->recursion" in this case, |