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Recently syzkaller reported a 7-year-old null-ptr-deref [0] that occurs when a UDP-Lite socket tries to allocate a buffer under memory pressure. Someone should have stumbled on the bug much earlier if UDP-Lite had been used in a real app. Also, we do not always need a large UDP-Lite workload to hit the bug since UDP and UDP-Lite share the same memory accounting limit. Removing UDP-Lite would simplify UDP code removing a bunch of conditionals in fast path. Let's add a deprecation notice when UDP-Lite socket is created and schedule its removal to 2025. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230523163305.66466-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/ [0] Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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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.