netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: correct memory barrier usage in tcp_check

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:23:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     jbaron@...mai.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: correct memory barrier usage in
 tcp_check_space()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:53:37 -0800

> On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 21:49 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
>> From: Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
>> 
>> sock_reset_flag() maps to __clear_bit() not the atomic version clear_bit().
>> Thus, we need smp_mb(), smp_mb__after_atomic() is not sufficient.
>> 
>> Fixes: 3c7151275c0c ("tcp: add memory barriers to write space paths")
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> I believe this would need also this for proper attribution.
> 
> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.