Re: PROBLEM: System call 'sendmsg' of process ospfd (quagga)causes kernel oops

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:01:33PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Adding an RCU protected structure to hold hard_header_len /
> needed_headroom / needed_tailroom should be possible, but this adds yet
> another pointer dereference...

I don't think we need RCU here since the problem is simply that
we're using two different values for skb allocations and skb_reserve.

As long as we use one and the same value it should work.  The value
will rarely be incorrect and when it is, automatic reallocation will
occur.

Cheers,
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