From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: linke li <lilinke99@qq.com>
Cc: xujianhao01@gmail.com, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen_id
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:36:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZiokCzm41m21CxLR@calendula> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_284407955020261D1B2BD142194A87C9EB0A@qq.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-25 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-23 11:50 [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen_id linke li
2024-04-23 12:03 ` Florian Westphal
2024-04-24 22:20 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-04-25 9:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2024-04-25 9:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-04-25 10:04 ` Florian Westphal
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