Re: [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen_id

Florian Westphal
2024-04-23T12:03:22Z

linke li <lilinke99@qq.com> 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.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Should proably go to nf tree.