netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen

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Message-ID: <ZimFmQDa4WdibJec@calendula>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:20:09 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc: linke li <lilinke99@...com>, xujianhao01@...il.com,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen_id

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> linke li <lilinke99@...com> wrote:
> > In __nf_ct_ext_find(), ext->gen_id can be changed by 
> > nf_ct_ext_valid_post(), using WRITE_ONCE. Mark data races on ext->gen_id
> > as benign using READ_ONCE. 
> > 
> > This patch is aimed at reducing the number of benign races reported by
> > KCSAN in order to focus future debugging effort on harmful races.
> 
> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> 
> Should proably go to nf tree.

Can I get a Fixes: tag for this one?