netdev - Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz

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Message-Id: <20090208.220455.146957669.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:04:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	rdreier@...co.com, snakebyte@....de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:03:54 +1100

> In fact, a number of spots in IPv6 already use sock_kmalloc
> for these objects anyway (e.g., ipv6_dup_options in exthdrs.c)
> so there is no fundamental reason why this limit can't be imposed.

Indeed, we are consistently inconsistent here.
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