netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending first broadcast

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:28:19 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: enable skb header refcounting before sending
 first broadcast

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Herbert Xu
<herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:22:34AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>> It should worry, in case multiple threads are using MSG_PEEK on same udp
>> socket ;)
>
> That should be fine because we already hold a spinlock on the
> queue.
>

Except that udp checksum are checked outside of spinlock protection.
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