netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.

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Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:56:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pshelar@....org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.

From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:59:16 -0700

> This patch is similar to earlier vxlan patch.
> Geneve device close operation frees geneve socket. This
> operation can race with geneve-xmit function which
> dereferences geneve socket. Following patch uses RCU
> mechanism to avoid this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
> Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>

Applied.