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Commit d961bee4 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni
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Merge branch 'net-sched-use-the-backlog-for-nested-mirred-ingress'

Davide Caratti says:

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net/sched: use the backlog for nested mirred ingress

TC mirred has a protection against excessive stack growth, but that
protection doesn't really guarantee the absence of recursion, nor
it guards against loops. Patch 1/2 rewords "recursion" to "nesting" to
make this more clear.
We can leverage on this existing mechanism to prevent TCP / SCTP from doing
soft lock-up in some specific scenarios that uses mirred egress->ingress:
patch 2 changes mirred so that the networking backlog is used for nested
mirred ingress actions.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1674233458.git.dcaratti@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parents 5cf6c22b ca22da2f
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