netdev - Re: [PATCH] inetpeer: kill inet

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:01:42 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inetpeer: kill inet_putpeer race

Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 à 20:25 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:49:52 +0200
> 
> > We currently can free inetpeer entries too early :
> ...
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> 
> I assume this is only relevant to net-next-2.6, am I right?
> 
> Applied.

Indeed, I caught this kmemcheck warning in net-next-2.6

linux-2.6 doesnt trigger it, since we hold a spinlock in inet_putpeer()

Thanks !


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