From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch -next] ipip: potential race in ip_tunnel_init_net() Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130825.184019.2151038981865894784.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130820.233301.985050199020241179.davem@davemloft.net> <20130823081537.GB31293@elgon.mountain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:52413 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756641Ab3HYWkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:40:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130823081537.GB31293@elgon.mountain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:15:37 +0300 > Eric Dumazet says that my previous fix for an ERR_PTR dereference > (ea857f28ab 'ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net()') > could be racy and suggests the following fix instead. > > Reported-by: Eric Dumazet > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Applied, thanks Dan.