From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix nf_conntrack_l4proto_register() Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:00:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4CCB0BC7.6040705@trash.net> References: <1288375022.2560.306.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:44288 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751729Ab0J2SAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:00:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1288375022.2560.306.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 29.10.2010 19:57, schrieb Eric Dumazet: > While doing __rcu annotations work on net/netfilter I found following > bug. On some arches, it is possible we publish a table while its content > is not yet committed to memory, and lockless reader can dereference wild > pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied, thanks Eric.