netdev - Re: [PATCH] [PATCH net] net: Do not hold the reference for the same sk_rx

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:29:05 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Kevin Xu <kaiwen.xu@...u.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH net] net: Do not hold the reference for the same
 sk_rx_dst.

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 16:13 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > Have you backported the redirect fix ?
> >
> > commit 45caeaa5ac0b4b11784ac6f932c0ad4c6b67cda0
> >
> > Or other fixes that went very recently (pick David Miller net tree)
> 
> Why the commit above is relevant here? It fixes a double-release,
> while Kevin's case is a double-hold... Not to mention it sk_rx_dst
> instead of sk_dst_cache, according to Kevin.

Yes you are right.

I was lazy, the other fix I wanted to mention was 
02b2faaf0af1d85585f

In any case I wanted to make sure the reported issue is not for some old
kernels.