[PATCH net-next] FDDI: defxx: Rate-limit memory allocation errors
From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Sun Mar 29 2026 - 08:32:46 EST
Prevent the system from becoming unstable or unusable due to a flood of
memory allocation error messages under memory pressure, e.g.:
[...]
fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.
fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.
fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.
fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.
rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 0-...!: (332 ticks this GP) idle=255c/1/0x40000000 softirq=16420123/16420123 fqs=0
rcu: (t=2103 jiffies g=35680089 q=4 ncpus=1)
rcu: rcu_sched kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 2102 jiffies! g35680089 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
rcu: Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=12779658
rcu: rcu_sched kthread starved for 2103 jiffies! g35680089 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=0
rcu: Unless rcu_sched kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
task:rcu_sched state:I stack:0 pid:14 tgid:14 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x258/0x580
schedule+0x19/0xa0
schedule_timeout+0x4a/0xb0
? hrtimers_cpu_dying+0x1b0/0x1b0
rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0xb1/0x450
rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x130
kthread+0xb2/0xe0
? rcu_gp_init+0x4a0/0x4a0
? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
ret_from_fork_asm+0x12/0x20
entry_INT80_32+0x10d/0x10d
CPU: 0 UID: 500 PID: 21895 Comm: 31370.exe Not tainted 6.13.0-dirty #2
(here running the libstdc++-v3 testsuite).
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
linux-defxx-ratelimit.diff
Index: linux-macro/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
===================================================================
--- linux-macro.orig/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
+++ linux-macro/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c
@@ -3182,7 +3182,7 @@ static void dfx_rcv_queue_process(
pkt_len + 3);
if (skb == NULL)
{
- printk("%s: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.\n", bp->dev->name);
+ printk_ratelimited("%s: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.\n", bp->dev->name);
bp->rcv_discards++;
break;
}