Hello!

> Isn't a socket freed until all skb are handled? In which case the limit on 
> the number of open
> files limits the total memory usage? (Same as with streaming sockets?)

Alas. Number of closed sockets is not limited. Actually, it is limited
by sk_max_ack_backlog*max_files, which is a lot.

The problem is specific for unconnected datagram sockets
(predicate unix_peer(other) != sk)
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