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Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:25:33 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] vxlan: Use RCU apis to access sk_user_data.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 09:09 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> Use of RCU api makes vxlan code easier to understand.  It also
>> fixes bug due to missing ACCESS_ONCE() on sk_user_data dereference.
>> In rare case without ACCESS_ONCE() compiler might omit vs on
>> sk_user_data dereference. Compiler can use vs as alias for
>> sk->sk_user_data, resulting in multiple sk_user_data dereference
>> in rcu read context which could change.
>>
>> CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> Use RCU_INIT_POINTER
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/vxlan.c |   11 ++++-------
>>  include/net/sock.h  |    2 ++
>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> index d1292fe..1fae0d6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -/*
>> + /*
>>   * VXLAN: Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network
>>   *
>
>
> extra space ?
>
right, I missed that.
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