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SubjectRe: Firewalling and network resource consumption while under attack
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In message <m0zLHmv-000aNTC@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| > if (backlog_is_too_large()) {
| > drop_packet(); /* probably skb_free() */
| > return;
| > }
|
| We've done that since before 1.0
+--->8

But either we're doing it too late, or the current problem reduces to the
same SA_INTERRUPT / run_bh problem we're already discussing.

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carnegie mellon university



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