From: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:48:08 +0000 > Currently, userspace is able to initiate costly high-order allocation in > kernel sending large broadcast netlink message, which is considered > undesirable. At the same time, unicast message are safe in this regard, > because they uses vmalloc-ed memory. > > This series introduces changes, that allow broadcast messages to be > allocated with vmalloc() as well as unicast. I'm tossing this series for the same reason I tossed the AF_UNIX change.
