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Message-ID: <1300033927.2761.26.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:32:07 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost-net: use lock_sock_fast() in peek_head_len()

Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 18:19 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin a écrit :

> Other side is in drivers/net/tun.c and net/packet/af_packet.c
> At least wrt tun it seems clear socket is not locked.

Yes (assuming you refer to tun_net_xmit())

> Besides queue, dequeue seems to be done without socket locked.
> 

It seems this code (assuming you speak of drivers/vhost/net.c ?) has
some races indeed.



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