netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] l2tp: fix race condition in l2tp_tunnel

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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:56:11 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Tom Parkin <tparkin@...alix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] l2tp: fix race condition in l2tp_tunnel_delete

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 04:16:43PM +0200, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> Add a dead flag to prevent firing the workqueue twice. Then we can
> remove the check of queue_work's result that was meant to prevent that
> race but doesn't.
> 
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>