netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: fix dev_seq

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:22:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: fix dev_seq_next()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:08:02 +0100

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: fix dev_seq_next()
> 
> Commit c6d14c84566d (net: Introduce for_each_netdev_rcu() iterator)
> added a race in dev_seq_next().
> 
> The rcu_dereference() call should be done _before_ testing the end of
> list, or we might return a wrong net_device if a concurrent thread
> changes net_device list under us.
> 
> Note : discovered thanks to a sparse warning :
> 
> net/core/dev.c:3919:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
> (different address spaces)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.
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