linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ensure rcu_read_lock() in ipv4_find

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Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:42:29 +0100
From:   Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ensure rcu_read_lock() in ipv4_find_option()

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:12 PM Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
>
> Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com> wrote:
> > As in commit c543cb4a5f07 ("ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in ipv4_link_failure()")
> > and commit 3e72dfdf8227 ("ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in cipso_v4_error()"),
> > __ip_options_compile() must be called under rcu protection.
>
> This is not needed, all netfilter hooks run with rcu_read_lock held.
>

Ok, so let's drop it, thanks.

-- 
Matteo Croce
per aspera ad upstream