netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: fix a race in egress prio management

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Message-Id: <20130718.130734.1267527837449730772.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: fix a race in egress prio management

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:35:10 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> egress_priority_map[] hash table updates are protected by rtnl,
> and we never remove elements until device is dismantled.
> 
> We have to make sure that before inserting an new element in hash table,
> all its fields are committed to memory or else another cpu could
> find corrupt values and crash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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