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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netlink: netlink_recvmsg() fix
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:22:33 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 08:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> We'll find another way to address the problem.

For my understanding: The problem is that the save/restore of the
frag_list skb can race so a second reader will not see the frag_list skb
because it gets there while it's NULL. This happens with MSG_PEEK, or
with clones of the SKB since skb_shared_info is invariant across clones.

Correct?

johannes