netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] fou: clean up socket with kfree

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Message-Id: <20151216.190336.1728452196062056833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:03:36 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] fou: clean up socket with kfree_rcu

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:01:53 +0100

> fou->udp_offloads is managed by RCU. As it is actually included inside
> the fou sockets, we cannot let the memory go out of scope before a grace
> period. We either can synchronize_rcu or switch over to kfree_rcu to
> manage the sockets. kfree_rcu seems appropriate as it is used by vxlan
> and geneve.
> 
> Fixes: 23461551c00628c ("fou: Support for foo-over-udp RX path")
> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied.
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