netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] notifier: Fix soft lockup for notifier_call

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:33:59 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>, luto@...nel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] notifier: Fix soft lockup for notifier_call_chain().

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Lot of this code was written decade ago where nobody expected a root
> user was going to try hard to crash its host ;)

+1

Adding cond_resched() to appropriate network notifiers sounds better.