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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Andy Gospodarek" <andy@greyhouse.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Guy Streeter" <streeter@redhat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Crash with NULL pointer dereference in bond_handle_frame in -rt (possibly mainline)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:46:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130329084632.469ec44d@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130329094856.GB1677@minipsycho.orion>

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:48:56 +0100
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> wrote:

> index 0caa38e..c16b829 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -3332,8 +3332,8 @@ void netdev_rx_handler_unregister(struct net_device *dev)
>  {
>  
>  	ASSERT_RTNL();
> -	RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->rx_handler, NULL);
> -	RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->rx_handler_data, NULL);
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(dev->rx_handler, NULL);
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(dev->rx_handler_data, NULL);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_rx_handler_unregister);
It is worth noting that at the time rcu_assign_pointer() had a special
case tat if the value was NULL it would compile into RCU_INIT_POINTER without
the barrier.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-29 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-28 17:16 [BUG] Crash with NULL pointer dereference in bond_handle_frame in -rt (possibly mainline) Steven Rostedt
2013-03-28 17:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-28 17:44   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-29  9:48   ` Jiri Pirko
2013-03-29 13:01     ` [PATCH] net: add a synchronize_net() in netdev_rx_handler_unregister() Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29 13:17       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-29 13:38         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29 15:11       ` Ivan Vecera
2013-03-29 15:38         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29 16:12           ` Jiri Pirko
2013-03-29 16:46             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29 19:20       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-03-29 19:26         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-29 19:39         ` David Miller
2013-03-29 15:46     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2013-03-29 18:36     ` [BUG] Crash with NULL pointer dereference in bond_handle_frame in -rt (possibly mainline) Steven Rostedt
2013-03-29 19:55       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-30  9:19       ` Jiri Pirko

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