netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Lost locking in fl6_sock

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:22:49 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Lost locking in fl6_sock_lookup

David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:53:52 +0400
> 
>> This routine scans the ipv6_fl_list whose update is
>> protected with the socket lock and the ip6_sk_fl_lock.
>>
>> Since the socket lock is not taken in the lookup, use
>> the other one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> 
> Applied.
> 
> But I notice that I was wrong in my email, we don't
> hold the socket lock here.
> 
> What prevents an unlink from the socket's list
> and thus a reference count of zero occurring for
> a brief moment?

Oops. You're right here :( I looked at the ip6_fl_lock
and messed it with the ip6_sk_fl_lock.

Should I resend the whole patch, or just make an 
incremental one?

Thanks,
Pavel
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