netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fixed race condition at ip

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Message-ID: <4CBFFA6F.3050106@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:43 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	Eduardo Blanco <ejblanco@...gle.com>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed race condition at ip_vs.ko module init.

Am 19.10.2010 17:23, schrieb Simon Horman:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +0100, Eduardo Blanco wrote:
>> Lists were initialized after the module was registered.  Multiple ipvsadm
>> processes at module load triggered a race condition that resulted in a null
>> pointer dereference in do_ip_vs_get_ctl(). As a result, __ip_vs_mutex
>> was left locked preventing all further ipvsadm commands.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo J. Blanco <ejblanco@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks Eduardo.
> 
> Patrick, please consider pulling
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-test-2.6.git for-patrick
> 
> to get this change.

Pulled, thanks.

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