linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Inet-hashtable: Change the range of sk->hash lock to avoid the race condition.

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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:00:04 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jun Chen <jun.d.chen@...el.com>
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Inet-hashtable: Change the range of sk->hash lock to
 avoid the race condition.

On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:32 -0400, Jun Chen wrote:
> When try to add node to list in __inet_hash_nolisten function, first get the
> list and then to lock for using, but in extremeness case, others can del this
> node before locking it, then the node should be null.So this patch try to lock
> firstly and then get the list for using to avoid this race condition.

I suspect another bug. This should not happen.

Care to describe the problem you got ?

Thanks


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