From: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:51:51 +0300
> netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink. > Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source > socket, > so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be, > and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock > of rtnetlink. > > Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional > argument to netlink_attachskb(). > > A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed > to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even > have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases: > 1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot > wait for buffer space. > 2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered > to some recipients. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied to net-2.6, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
