Bug#599816: Nested GRE locking bug
Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 01:53 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:11:59 +0200
>
> > net-next-2.6 contains a fix for this, adding the perc_cpu
> > xmit_recursion limit. We might push it to net-2.6
>
> We need to think a bit more about this.
>
> We are essentially now saying that one can only configure
> tunnels 3 levels deep, and no more.
>
> I can guarentee you someone out there uses at least 4,
> perhaps more.
>
> And those people will be broken by the new limit.
>
> So putting this into net-2.6 with such a low limit will
> be quite dangerous.
Well limit is actually 4, but I get your point ;)
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