From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Дмитрий Леонтьев" <dm.leontiev7@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: __GFP_LOW
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:19:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410121904.GD22118@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+JonM0HG9kWb6-0iyDQ8UMxTeR-f=+ZL89t5DvvDULDC8Sfyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:12:37PM +0300, Дмитрий Леонтьев wrote:
> First, I've noticed the network drivers were allocating memory in interrupt
> handlers. That sounds strange to me, because as far as I know, this
> behaviour is discouraged and may lead to DDOS attack.
Linux supports allocating memory in interrupt context. We also support
allocating memory while holding locks.
Doing it any other way would require the network stack to preallocate
all of the memory it's going to use. You can pop over to the netdev
mailing list and ask them to stop this behaviour, but I don't think
they'll be very sympathetic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-29 10:41 [PATCH v1] kernel/trace:check the val against the available mem Zhaoyang Huang
2018-03-29 16:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 3:32 ` Zhaoyang Huang
2018-03-30 14:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 6:53 ` [Kernel-patch-test] " kbuild test robot
2018-03-30 6:54 ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-30 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 16:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-03-30 19:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 20:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-03-30 20:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-30 21:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 21:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-30 23:38 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-03-31 1:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-31 2:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-31 3:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-31 5:44 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-04-02 0:52 ` Zhaoyang Huang
2018-04-03 11:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 11:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-03 12:16 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 12:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-03 12:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 13:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-03 13:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 14:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-03 16:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-03 16:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-03 22:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 6:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 12:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-04-04 12:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 14:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 14:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 14:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 15:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 15:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 15:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 2:58 ` Zhaoyang Huang
2018-04-04 6:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 9:29 ` Zhaoyang Huang
2018-04-04 14:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 14:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 14:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-04 14:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-05 2:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-05 4:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-04-05 14:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-05 14:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-05 14:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-04-05 15:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-05 15:32 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-05 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-05 18:54 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-05 20:15 ` __GFP_LOW Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-06 6:09 ` __GFP_LOW Michal Hocko
2018-04-08 4:27 ` __GFP_LOW Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-09 7:34 ` __GFP_LOW Michal Hocko
2018-04-09 15:51 ` __GFP_LOW Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-09 18:14 ` __GFP_LOW Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <CA+JonM0HG9kWb6-0iyDQ8UMxTeR-f=+ZL89t5DvvDULDC8Sfyw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-04-10 12:19 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-04-05 14:30 ` [PATCH v1] kernel/trace:check the val against the available mem Steven Rostedt
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