netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: igmp: fix a use after free

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:59:32 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: igmp: fix a use after free

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> I mentioned (in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/31/619 ) that we might need
> to defer freeing after rcu grace period but for some reason decided it
> was not needed.

This one makes sense, it is the second time I saw the use-after-free
in igmp code, both are because we don't respect the RCU rule to free
an element in the list.

>
> What about :

But not sure if all ip_ma_put() callers want ip_mc_clear_src().