Re: xfrm_user reliability

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:58:35 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Yes but some people are paranoid :)

I understand.

> On the other hand if you VPN server with thousands of connections
> gets stuck because nothing was returned from the NETLINK socket...

Actually, more importantly, if you configure your VPN server such that
it can run out of all memory and swap (that's essentially when this
netlink_ack() alloc failure will trigger) you have larger issues.

But of course we'll fix this so these folks have an even larger
rope by which to hang themselves :)
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