From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com,
yotamg@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com,
dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, idosch@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: core: Correctly iterate over lower adjacency list
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:36:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019153627.GA28249@splinter> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161019.103829.1873231752009765175.davem@davemloft.net>
Hi Dave,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:38:29AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: idosch@idosch.org
> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:57:08 +0300
>
> > From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> >
> > Tamir reported the following trace when processing ARP requests received
> > via a vlan device on top of a VLAN-aware bridge:
> ...
> > The problem is that netdev_all_lower_get_next_rcu() never advances the
> > iterator, thereby causing the loop over the lower adjacency list to run
> > forever.
> >
> > Fix this by advancing the iterator and avoid the infinite loop.
> >
> > Fixes: 7ce856aaaf13 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add couple of lower device helper functions")
> > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> > Reported-by: Tamir Winetroub <tamirw@mellanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>
> Applied.
Below the patch I noted "Please consider queueing this for 4.8.y", but
you didn't reply and I don't see it here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
So I'm not sure if this was rejected or you just missed my note.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 13:57 [PATCH net] net: core: Correctly iterate over lower adjacency list idosch
2016-10-19 14:33 ` David Ahern
2016-10-19 14:38 ` David Miller
2016-10-19 15:36 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2016-10-19 16:28 ` David Miller
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