netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix a race in ip4_datagram_release

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406281724370.18954@dtop>
Date:	Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	dormando <dormando@...ia.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Alexey Preobrazhensky <preobr@...gle.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Lars Bull <larsbull@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Bruce Curtis <brutus@...gle.com>,
	Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix a race in ip4_datagram_release_cb()

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 18:12 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> >
> > For the curious, another problem is in ipv4_sk_update_pmtu()
> >
> > This can be called on UDP sockets, but from softirq context.
> >
> > We cannot use sk_dst_lock because this lock is not softirq safe.
> >
> > I guess we should use xchg() for sk_dst_set() and sk_dst_reset()
>
> This would be something like this untested patch :
>

I see this didn't get queued for stable, should it be dropped due to the
later patch? (which did get queued for stable).
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