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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RCU lock bug in 3.0.21 (bisected to: 682cb56a, fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:07:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332806834.3547.16.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F70FFE0.7070204@candelatech.com>

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:46 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> The 3.0.21 kernel doesn't appear to have a rcu_read_lock_return(),
> so I can't use your patch below.

This patch was only to show the point (I also CCed Paul, he might have
some time to think about it, after he clears the inline stuff with
Linus)

As I said, I was referreing to you adding stuff in rcu. ;)

Unfortunately I wont have time in the near future to do so myself.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-27  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-26 21:43 RCU lock bug in 3.0.21 (bisected to: 682cb56a, fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir) Ben Greear
2012-03-26 21:49 ` David Miller
2012-03-26 21:53   ` Ben Greear
2012-03-26 23:06     ` Ben Greear
2012-03-26 23:11       ` David Miller
2012-03-26 23:39       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-26 23:46         ` Ben Greear
2012-03-26 23:53           ` Ben Greear
2012-03-27  0:07           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-03-27  5:11             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-27  5:30               ` Ben Greear
2012-03-27 16:47                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-03-27 16:47         ` Ben Greear
2012-03-27 18:06           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-27 19:39           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-27 19:53             ` [PATCH] net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node() Eric Dumazet
2012-03-27 20:07               ` Ben Greear
2012-03-27 20:17               ` Ben Greear
2012-03-27 20:25                 ` Greg KH
2012-03-27 22:22               ` David Miller
2012-03-28  0:54                 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-28  1:27                   ` David Miller

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