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Message-ID: <45FFBF37.4030801@trash.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:02:15 +0100
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To: Chris Madden <chris@...lexsecurity.com>
CC: hadi@...erus.ca, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: Oops in filter add
Chris Madden wrote:
> Thanks for all your replies!
>
> One thing I did notice in examining tc_ctl_tfilter was that there is
> something like:
>
> qdisc_lock_tree(dev);
> tp->next = *back;
> *back = tp;
> qdisc_unlock_tree(dev);
>
> And then proceed to the data structure down below with:
>
> err = tp->ops->change(tp, cl, t->tcm_handle, tca, &fh);
>
> Simply reordering these seems to ameliorate the problem greatly. I
> don't know if this is a generic solution or something specific to the
> basic filter only.
It might hide the problem, but there are currently a lot of places
where things can go wrong.
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