linux-kernel - [PATCH] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

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Message-ID: <46236082.3000101@sw.ru>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:39:46 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: [PATCH] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

From: Denis Lunev <den@...nvz.org>

There is a race between netlink_dump_start() and netlink_release()
that can lead to the situation when a netlink socket with non-zero
callback is freed.

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