netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Some sockopt optlen fixes

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:53:41 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com, haliu@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Some sockopt optlen fixes

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  8 Jan 2018 19:02:26 -0200

> Hangbin Liu reported that some SCTP sockopt are allowing the user to get
> the kernel to allocate really large buffers by not having a ceiling on
> optlen.
> 
> This patchset address this issue (in patch 2), replace an GFP_ATOMIC
> that isn't needed and avoid calculating the option size multiple times
> in some setsockopt.

Series applied, thank you.