netdev - Re: linux-next: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __sk_mem_raise

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:31:26 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
 dereference in __sk_mem_raise_allocated()

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 15:58 -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:

> 
> Yes, you are right. It works if we set .memory_allocated and .sysctl_mem.

Now the question would be :

Are we okay if UDP and UDPlite share the same limits ?

I would vote for yes, because these default limits are huge anyway
(The 50% reduction done in
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b66e91ccbc34ebd5a2f90f9e1bc1597e2924a500
only impacted TCP )