netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: fix double free from dev_map

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:47:55 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>, davem@...emloft.net
CC:     john.fastabend@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: fix double free from dev_map_notification()

On 08/21/2017 02:42 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 8/20/17 4:48 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
[...]
> I wonder why it was done the other way around in the first place then?
> dev_map_list is there only for notifier and since the map is freed
> with all the devices totally makes sense to isolate it from notifier
> as a first step.

Yep, agree. Initially this was done by the mutex, but that was not
correct due to RCU for map helpers, of course.