On 15.01.2016 17:45, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 15:33 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
It was seen that defective configurations of openvswitch could overwrite
the STACK_END_MAGIC and cause a hard crash of the kernel because of too
many recursions within ovs.

...

+
+       preempt_disable();
+       level = __this_cpu_inc_return(exec_actions_level);
+       if (level > ovs_recursion_limit) {

if (unlikely(level > ovs_recursion_limit)) {


Thanks, I added it!

Bye,
Hannes


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