netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] netfilter: x_tables: fix ordering of jumpstack allocation and table update

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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:04:56 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] netfilter: x_tables: fix ordering of jumpstack
 allocation and table update

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 17:37 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

> What I'm *not* 100% sure about is the table freeing path. There is a mutex
> there for removing the table from a list, but I'm not sure how we ensure
> that there are no parallel readers at that point.

Sequence is :

xt_replace_table();
get_counters();
xt_free_table_info();

get_counters() is the way we ensure no cpu is using old copy of the
table before freeing.




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