netdev - Re: [PATCH] veth: Fix race with AF_XDP exposing old or uninitialized descriptors

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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:30:09 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@...udflare.com>
Cc:     magnus.karlsson@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, bjorn@...nel.org, kernel-team@...udflare.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: Fix race with AF_XDP exposing old or
 uninitialized descriptors

On Wed, 2022-12-21 at 17:07 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:59:03 -0600 Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> >  	if (stats.xdp_tx > 0)
> >  		veth_xdp_flush(rq, &bq);
> 
> This one does not need similar treatment, right?
> Only thing I could spot is potential races in updating stats, 
> but that seems like a larger issue with veth xdp.

Agreed, I think stats would deserve a separate patch (and this one
looks correct).

Cheers,

Paolo