On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:25:41 AM Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with this commit:
> commit c8d68e6be1c3b242f1c598595830890b65cea64a
> Author: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed Oct 31 19:46:00 2012 +0000
>
> tuntap: multiqueue support
>
>
> I see fork bombs from udev. It is trying to create 2048 processes. 1024
> for tx, 1024 for rx. OOM killer indeed steps in and kills everything.
Hi, thanks for the reporting, could you pls try the following patch?
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index b44d7b7..cc3f878 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -492,9 +492,6 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file
*file)
tun_set_real_num_queues(tun);
- if (tun->numqueues == 1)
- netif_carrier_on(tun->dev);
-
/* device is allowed to go away first, so no need to hold extra
* refcnt.
*/
@@ -1611,6 +1608,10 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file
*file, struct ifreq *ifr)
TUN_USER_FEATURES;
dev->features = dev->hw_features;
+ err = tun_attach(tun, file);
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto err_free_dev;
+
err = register_netdevice(tun->dev);
if (err < 0)
goto err_free_dev;
@@ -1620,9 +1621,7 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file
*file, struct ifreq *ifr)
device_create_file(&tun->dev->dev, &dev_attr_group))
pr_err("Failed to create tun sysfs files\n");
- err = tun_attach(tun, file);
- if (err < 0)
- goto err_free_dev;
+ netif_carrier_on(tun->dev);
}
tun_debug(KERN_INFO, tun, "tun_set_iff\n");
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