netdev - Re: [PATCH] PPPoE: Fix flush/close races.

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Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:37 +0200
From:	Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@...il.com>, linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPPoE: Fix flush/close races.

On Monday 26 October 2009 21:59:33 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> [Michal Ostrowski - Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:51:52PM -0500]
>
> | Be more careful about the state of pointers during tear-down.
> | The "pppoe_dev" field can only be looked at safely while holding socket
> | locks. This subsequently allows for the flush_lock to be killed.
> |
> | We depend on the PPPOX_CONNECTED state to tell us that that those fields
> | are valid, so whoever clears that state (pppox_unbind_sock()) is
> | responsible for the dev_put() call.
> |
> | We also have to ensure that we delete_item() on all sockets before they
> | are cleaned up.
> |
> | The need for these changes has been exposed by scenarios wherein
> | namespace bindings of ethernet devices change while there are ongoing
> | PPPoE sessions, which resulted in oopses due to unusual socket connection
> | termination paths, exposing these issues.
> |
> | Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@...il.com>
> | Reviewed-by: Cyril Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
>
> ...
>
> Thanks a lot Michal!
>
> I think we should add as well
>
> Reported-by: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
> Tested-by: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
>
> 	-- Cyrill

Yes, till now everything working perfectly. Confirming :-)
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