buggy GFP_KERNEL allocators

[Giuliano Pochini]

>    Doing such schedule make no sense at all. Each caller should have a fail
>    path that giveups.
>
> Actually there is one place which cannot fail, allocation of the
> final FIN frame in TCP.  It may never fail, it will loop until
> it gets the memory.

Hmm, sounds like the hard to catch bug that sometimes crash web servers...

Bye.



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