netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: fix panic in rate estimators

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Date:	Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:55:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, john.fastabend@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: sched: fix panic in rate estimators

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:30:12 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Doing the following commands on a non idle network device
> panics the box instantly, because cpu_bstats gets overwritten
> by stats.
> 
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root <your_favorite_qdisc>
> ... some traffic (one packet is enough) ...
> tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root est 1sec 4sec <your_favorite_qdisc>
 ...
> Lets play safe and not use an union : percpu 'pointers' are mostly read
> anyway, and we have typically few qdiscs per host.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> Fixes: 22e0f8b9322c ("net: sched: make bstats per cpu and estimator RCU safe")

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.
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