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Eric Dumazet
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tpacket_rcv() can be hit under DDOS quite hard, since it will always grab a socket spinlock, to eventually find there is no room for an additional packet. Using tcpdump [1] on a busy host can lead to catastrophic consequences, because of all cpus spinning on a contended spinlock. This replicates a similar strategy used in packet_rcv() [1] Also some applications mistakenly use af_packet socket bound to ETH_P_ALL only to send packets. Receive queue is never drained and immediately full. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.