Re: [Bug 200651] New: cgroups iptables-restor: vmalloc: allocation failure

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Georgi Nikolov <gnikolov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, I think that's rather for the netfilter folks to decide. However, it
> > seems there has been the debate already [1] and it was not found. The
> > conclusion was that __GFP_NORETRY worked fine before, so it should work
> > again after it's added back. But now we know that it doesn't...
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180130140104.GE21609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> 
> Yes i see. I will add Florian Westphal to CC list. netfilter-devel is
> already in this list so probably have to wait for their opinion.

It hasn't changed, I think having OOM killer zap random processes
just because userspace wants to import large iptables ruleset is not a
good idea.
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