On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:39 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > On 24-01-2013 14:25, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > A device sending 0 length frames as fast as it can has been > > observed killing the host system due to the resulting memory > > pressure. [] > > diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c [] > > + /* Do not let a device flood us to death! */ > > + if (dev->done.qlen > 1024) { > > + netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "done queue filling up (%u) - throttling\n", dev->done.qlen); > > + usbnet_defer_kevent (dev, EVENT_RX_MEMORY); > > + usb_free_urb (urb); > > Run your patch thru scripts/checkpatch.pl please And maybe ratelimit the netif_dbg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html