netdev - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzYHJcGEmuj900G60DECBvdWDWNC09N393PWutsFUL-oQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:00:35 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock()
> {
>        newsk = tcp_create_openreq_child(sk, req, skb);
>
> newsk is locked at this point.

Umm, if that is the case, then the bug predates the commit you point
to. There were exit paths before that too.

                   Linus
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