netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: panic in leaf_walk

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Date:	Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:02:36 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dforster@...cade.com, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: panic in leaf_walk_rcu due to stale node pointer

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:01 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: David Forster <dforster@...cade.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:13:01 +0100
>
>> Panic occurs when issuing "cat /proc/net/route" whilst
>> populating FIB with > 1M routes.
>>
>> Use of cached node pointer in fib_route_get_idx is unsafe.
>  ...
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Forster <dforster@...cade.com>
>
> Alexander, please review.
>
> Thanks.

It took me a bit to recall how this worked.  This looks good to me.

By the way, I am glad you emailed my Gmail because my Mirantis email
is no more, I am back to working for Intel.

Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>