netdev - Re: [PATCH] udp: Prevent reuseport_select_sock from reading uninitialized socks

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Date:   Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:16:42 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
        Baptiste Lepers <baptiste.lepers@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: Prevent reuseport_select_sock from reading
 uninitialized socks

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 00:27:07 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:11 AM Baptiste Lepers
> <baptiste.lepers@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > reuse->socks[] is modified concurrently by reuseport_add_sock. To
> > prevent reading values that have not been fully initialized, only read
> > the array up until the last known safe index instead of incorrectly
> > re-reading the last index of the array.
> >
> > Fixes: acdcecc61285f ("udp: correct reuseport selection with connected
> > sockets")
> > Signed-off-by: Baptiste Lepers <baptiste.lepers@...il.com>  
> 
> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks. This also matches local variable socks as used to calculate i
> and j with reciprocal_scale immediately above.
> 
> Please mark fixes [PATCH net] in the future.

And please don't wrap the fixes tags.

Applied, thanks!