kern/55886: mbuf exhaustion can cause panic

Pawel Malachowski pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl
Tue Aug 26 01:30:24 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR kern/55886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting at freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/55886: mbuf exhaustion can cause panic
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:29:08 +0200

 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Robert Watson wrote:
 
 >   		M_PREPEND(m, sizeof(struct ip), M_TRYWAIT);
 >  +		if (m == NULL)
 >  +			return(ENOBUFS);
 >   		ip = mtod(m, struct ip *);
 
 Tested on latest 4.8-STABLE. No panic after >10 hours of loopback flooding.
 Seems it works, thanks!
 
 
 -- 
 Pawe³ Ma³achowski


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