netdev - Re: [PATCH] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

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Message-ID: <46236102.2080706@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:41:54 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> 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.


Can you describe the race in more detail please?

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