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

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Message-ID: <ZiokCzm41m21CxLR@calendula>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:36:11 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: linke li <lilinke99@...com>
Cc: xujianhao01@...il.com, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	"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 07:50:22PM +0800, linke li 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.

There are a more uses ext->gen_id in the code, my understanding this
patch is just a stub.