Bug#599816: Nested GRE locking bug

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 12:53 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> I'll commit the following to upstream, and submit a combined
> patch to -stable.
> 
> --------------------
> net: Increase xmit RECURSION_LIMIT to 10.
> 
> Three is definitely too low, and we know from reports that GRE tunnels
> stacked as deeply as 37 levels cause stack overflows, so pick some
> reasonable value between those two.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 78b5a89..2c7da3a 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
>  }
>  
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, xmit_recursion);
> -#define RECURSION_LIMIT 3
> +#define RECURSION_LIMIT 10
>  
>  /**
>   *	dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer


Perfect, thanks !