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Eric Dumazet committed 2c51c6273c7
net/packet: implement shortcut in tpacket_rcv() 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>