netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tun: fix rcu_read_lock imbalance in tun_build

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Date:   Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:24:16 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jasowang@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tun: fix rcu_read_lock imbalance in tun_build_skb

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:31:04 +0800

> rcu_read_lock in tun_build_skb is used to rcu_dereference tun->xdp_prog
> safely, rcu_read_unlock should be done in every return path.
> 
> Now I could see one place missing it, where it returns NULL in switch-case
> XDP_REDIRECT,  another palce using rcu_read_lock wrongly, where it returns
> NULL in if (xdp_xmit) chunk.
> 
> So fix both in this patch.
> 
> Fixes: 761876c857cb ("tap: XDP support")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Good catch, applied, thanks!