netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: lock socket in ip6_datagram

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:56:32 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: lock socket in ip6_datagram_connect()

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> ip6_datagram_connect() is doing a lot of socket changes without
> socket being locked.
> 
> This looks wrong, at least for udp_lib_rehash() which could corrupt
> lists because of concurrent udp_sk(sk)->udp_portaddr_hash accesses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Good find! This goes all the way back to 1.3 it seems :)

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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