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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25][NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create().
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:05:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A1AB95.4080202@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080130.193128.136832319.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:15:13 +0300
> 
>> The comment about "race free view of the set of network 
>> namespaces" was a bit hasty. Look (there even can be only 
>> one CPU, as discovered by Alexey Dobriyan and Denis Lunev):
>  ...
>> Instead, I propose to crate the socket inside an init_net
>> namespace and then re-attach it to the desired one right
>> after the socket is created.
>>
>> After doing this, we also have to be careful on error paths
>> not to drop the reference on the namespace, we didn't get
>> the one on.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
>> Acked-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 

Thanks, David.

I have one more patch pending in netdev@ and some more to be sent
(cleanups, small fixes and net namespaces). Do I have to wait till
net-2.6.26, or can I start (re-)sending them while 2.6.25 merge
window is open?

Thanks,
Pavel

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24 13:15 [PATCH net-2.6.25][NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create() Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-31  3:31 ` David Miller
2008-01-31 11:05   ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-01-31 11:45     ` David Miller

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