netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] fix use-after-free bugs in skb list processing

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Date:   Sat, 07 Jul 2018 10:56:57 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] fix use-after-free bugs in skb list
 processing

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 18:01:04 +0100

> A couple of bugs in skb list handling were spotted by Dan Carpenter, with
>  the help of Smatch; following up on them I found a couple more similar
>  cases.  This series fixes them by changing the relevant loops to use the
>  dequeue-enqueue model (rather than in-place list modification), and then
>  adds a list.h helper macro to refactor code using the dequeue-enqueue
>  model.

Edward, I think the helper added in patch #3 is not all that great.

It can be even more confusing to understand what the code is doing in
my opinion.  I am pretty sure more hackers would need to go and
read the macro definition in list.h before understanding what the
read side effects of it are.

Would you please resubmit this series including only patches #1
and #2?

Thank you.