netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 3/3] net/core/sock.c: sk_clone_lock() should only do get_net() if the parent is not a kernel socket

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Message-ID: <1438291918.20182.135.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 23:31:58 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	ajaykumar.hotchandani@...cle.com,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 3/3] net/core/sock.c: sk_clone_lock()
 should only do get_net() if the parent is not a kernel socket

On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 11:29 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> > CC Eric Biederman
> >
> > It looks this should be submitted for 'net' tree, not 'net-next'
> >
> 
> It only affects TCP kernel sockets, and we only have few use cases in tree,
> and it looks like dlm does its own ->accpet(), so net-next should be fine.

Right, nobody uses NFS anymore I guess.

If bug was added in 4.2, fix should land in net tree.

Not sure why we should wait.


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