On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:11:27PM +0900, Satoshi OSHIMA wrote:
>
> +static inline int __ip_check_max_skb_pages(struct sock *sk, int size)
> +{
> +     switch(sk->sk_protocol) {
> +     case IPPROTO_UDP:
> +             if (sk->sk_prot->sysctl_mem[0] > UDP_MIN_SKB_PAGES)
> +                     if (atomic_read(sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated)+size
> +                         >= sk->sk_prot->sysctl_mem[0])
> +                             return -ENOBUFS;
> +             /* Fall through */      
> +     default:
> +             break;
> +     }
> +     return 0;
> +}

Since you're not doing a per-user limit, you must give each
socket a minimum even when the total exceeds your threshold.

Otherwise any local user can trivially DoS the whole system.

> +UDP variables:
> +
> +udp_mem - INTERGER
> +     Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
> +     Minimal value is 4096. If 4096 is set, UDP memory will not
> +     be limited.
> +     Default: 4096

This seems to be a rather confusing setup.  We don't set a
minimum for TCP so is this really necessary?

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