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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vfalico@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: fix send_peer_notif leekage on rtnl lock congestion
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:12:12 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805.161212.421332729798966037.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375732053-829-1-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com>

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Date: Mon,  5 Aug 2013 21:47:33 +0200

> @@ -2999,7 +3002,10 @@ void bond_activebackup_arp_mon(struct work_struct *work)
>  		if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
>  			read_lock(&bond->lock);
>  			delta_in_ticks = 1;
> -			should_notify_peers = false;
> +			if (should_notify_peers) {
> +				bond->send_peer_notif++;

I doubt this increment to a shared datastructure is safe with
the locks you hold here.

You don't hold RTNL and you only have bond->lock as a reader.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05 19:47 [PATCH net-next] bonding: fix send_peer_notif leekage on rtnl lock congestion Veaceslav Falico
2013-08-05 23:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-08-06 12:17   ` Veaceslav Falico

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