From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net/bridge/br_if.c: don't use _WORK_NAR
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:27:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8462.1171884453@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070218214359.GA4226@tv-sign.ru>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:
> Afaics, noautorel work_struct buys nothing for "struct net_bridge_port".
You may be right.
> If del_nbp()->cancel_delayed_work(&p->carrier_check) fails, port_carrier_check
> may be called later anyway.
Called by what? Something outside of br_if.c?
> So the reading of *work in port_carrier_check() is equally unsafe with or
> without this patch.
Hmmm... cancel_delayed_work() in del_nbp() probably ought to be followed by a
flush_scheduled_work().
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-18 21:43 [PATCH 1/3] net/bridge/br_if.c: don't use _WORK_NAR Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 11:00 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 12:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 13:27 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 15:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 13:25 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-20 14:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 11:27 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-02-19 11:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 13:15 ` David Howells
2007-02-19 14:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-19 15:15 ` David Howells
2007-02-19 22:11 ` PATCH? net/bridge/br_if.c: fix use after free in port_carrier_check() Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-20 10:44 ` David Howells
2007-02-20 14:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
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