netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] rds: tcp: fix various rds-tcp issues during netns create/delete sequences

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:04:38 -0800
From:   "santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     syzkaller@...glegroups.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] rds: tcp: fix various rds-tcp issues during netns
 create/delete sequences

On 3/4/17 8:57 AM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> Dmitry Vyukov reported some syszkaller panics during netns deletion.
>
> While I have not been able to reproduce those exact panics, my attempts
> to do so uncovered a few other problems, which are fixed patch 2 and
> patch 3 of this patch series. In addition, as mentioned in,
>  https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg422997.html
> code-inspection points that the rds_connection needs to take an explicit
> refcnt on the struct net so that it is held down until all cleanup is
> completed for netns removal, and this is fixed by patch1.
>
Hopefully Dmitry can try the series and see if it fixes the issue(s).
The fixes looks good to me.

FWIW, Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>