netdev - [RACE] net: in process

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Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:50:53 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RACE] net: in process_backlog

Dear Stephen:

I don't think this change
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e583ce5242f32e925dcb198f7123256d0798370
is correct.

                        local_irq_enable();
                        break;
                }
-
                local_irq_enable();

-               dev = skb->dev;
-
on MP system, flush_backlog() will be called here, and after that
skb->dev will be invalid, if we access it, sth. unexpected may
happens.

                netif_receive_skb(skb);
-
-               dev_put(dev);
        } while (++work < quota && jiffies == start_time);

        return work;

-- 
Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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