netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: nf_conntrack: prevent uninit-value in gc

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Message-ID: <20180717161552.6etdphougrsaoi57@breakpoint.cc>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:15:52 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: nf_conntrack: prevent uninit-value in
 gc_worker

Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
> What could be possible is that another core is registering/unregistering
> the conntrack hooks in parallel, I guess in that case we could have:
[..]

much simpler explanation: dccp connection tracker.