netdev - Re: [PATCH] tipc: avoid packets leaking on socket receive queue

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:45:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ying.xue@...driver.com
Cc:	jon.maloy@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: avoid packets leaking on socket receive queue

From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:46:05 +0800

> Even if we drain receive queue thoroughly in tipc_release() after tipc
> socket is removed from rhashtable, it is possible that some packets
> are in flight because some CPU runs receiver and did rhashtable lookup
> before we removed socket. They will achieve receive queue, but nobody
> delete them at all. To avoid this leak, we register a private socket
> destructor to purge receive queue, meaning releasing packets pending
> on receive queue will be delayed until the last reference of tipc
> socket will be released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>

Applied.
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