Re: [PATCH net-next] FDDI: defxx: Rate-limit memory allocation errors

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Mon Mar 30 2026 - 22:02:08 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:32:25 +0100 (BST) you wrote:
> 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 is the summary with links:
- [net-next] FDDI: defxx: Rate-limit memory allocation errors
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/7fae6616704a

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