FreeBSD-SA-15:15.tcp

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There is a mistake with the introduction of VNET, which converted the global limit on the number of segments that could belong to reassembly queues into a per-VNET limit. Because mbufs are allocated from a global pool, in the presence of a sufficient number of VNETs, the total number of mbufs attached to reassembly queues can grow to the total number of mbufs in the system, at which point all network traffic would cease.
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