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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/[email protected]/ [0]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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