linux-kernel - Re: [net][PATCH v2 2/2] RDS: Fix the atomicity for congestion map update

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Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net][PATCH v2 2/2] RDS: Fix the atomicity for congestion map
 update

From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:43:27 -0700

> Two different threads with different rds sockets may be in
> rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() via receive path. If their ports
> both map to the same word in the congestion map, then
> using non-atomic ops to update it could cause the map to
> be incorrect. Lets use atomics to avoid such an issue.
> 
> Full credit to Wengang <wen.gang.wang@...cle.com> for
> finding the issue, analysing it and also pointing out
> to offending code with spin lock based fix.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...n.nu>
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>

Applied.