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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:51:41 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, jhs@...atatu.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: fix unprotected access to rcu cookie
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On 07/09/2018 01:34 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:

> I am not sure if this is enough to fix the entire issue. Now it will
> fetch the length correctly but, what guarantees that when it tries to
> actually copy the key (tcf_action_dump_1), the same act_cookie pointer
> will be used? As in, can't the new re-fetch be different/smaller than
> the object used here?
> 

Yes, this presumably should use rtnl_dereference()

RTNL should be held between tcf_action_shared_attrs_size() and tcf_action_dump_1()

Although it might not be the case anymore, we keep changing this RTNL requirement
in dump operations ;)

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