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

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Message-ID: <1479218840.4660.18.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:07:20 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
 dereference in __sk_mem_raise_allocated()

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 06:02 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 10:26 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 15:24 -0800, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> > > Our test system detected a kernel oops. Looks like a problem in the
> > > "udp: refactor memory accounting" series.
> > 
> > My fault: I missed udplite in my tests.
> > 
> > Thank you for reporting.
> > 
> > I'm fine with Eric's patch, setting both .memory_allocated
> > and .sysctl_mem.
> > We could also remove .backlog_rcv, but it's not strictly needed.
> 
> That is a good point, can you cook the official combined patch ?

Sure, I'll send ASAP, after a little testing.