netdev - Re: [patch -next] ipip: potential race in ip_tunnel_init

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Date:	Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:40:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch -next] ipip: potential race in ip_tunnel_init_net()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:15:37 +0300

> Eric Dumazet says that my previous fix for an ERR_PTR dereference
> (ea857f28ab 'ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net()')
> could be racy and suggests the following fix instead.
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks Dan.
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