From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Bernard Metzler <bmt@zurich.ibm.com>, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bvanassche@acm.org, jgg@ziepe.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] RDMA/siw: Fix IPv6 addr_list locking
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:38:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31789d5f705c7907f161be598552d013f0ea202d.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828130355.22830-1-bmt@zurich.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 15:03 +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> Walking the address list of an inet6_dev requires
> appropriate locking. Since the called function
> siw_listen_address() may sleep, we have to use
> rtnl_lock() instead of read_lock_bh().
>
> Also introduces sanity checks if we got a device
> from in_dev_get() or in6_dev_get().
>
> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Fixes: 6c52fdc244b5 ("rdma/siw: connection management")
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Metzler <bmt@zurich.ibm.com>
Applied to for-rc, thanks.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 13:03 [PATCH v3] RDMA/siw: Fix IPv6 addr_list locking Bernard Metzler
2019-08-28 14:38 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
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2019-08-28 9:38 Bernard Metzler
2019-08-28 10:47 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-08-27 22:07 Bernard Metzler
2019-08-28 5:02 ` Leon Romanovsky
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