Re: buggy GFP_KERNEL allocators

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@denise.shiny.it)
Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:49:27 +0100

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> Doing such schedule make no sense at all. Each caller should have a fail
> path that giveups.
>
> Actually there is one place which cannot fail, allocation of the
> final FIN frame in TCP. It may never fail, it will loop until
> it gets the memory.

Hmm, sounds like the hard to catch bug that sometimes crash web servers...

Bye.

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