Re: xfrm_user reliability

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:08:56 +0400 (MSD)
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

> > Another possibility is to do a "yield() until memory available" like
> > net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:tcp_send_fin() does.
> 
> In theory it could be called from softirq context.
> It does not happen when nlmsg_ack is called synchronously, but...

netlink_ack() must never be invoked from softirq context,
that is why it uses GFP_KERNEL for alloc_skb() call.
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