netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: release conntrack from rcu callback

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Message-ID: <20140106214438.GC2360@moon>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 01:44:38 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	vvs@...nvz.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: release conntrack from rcu
 callback

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:23:26PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > 
> > No? Or there something obvious I'm missing?
> 
> IMHO this isn't obvious at all :-)
> 
> But, in the example above, the atomic_inc_not_zero() should fail
> until after __nf_conntrack_alloc() re-inits the refcount to 1.
> 
> The mb there should make sure ____nf_conntrack_find() doesn't
> find an outdated tuple before this.

Yeah, thanks!
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