From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pshelar@ovn.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 1/2] vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:56:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161029.205643.527711053369155352.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477673956-127319-1-git-send-email-pshelar@ovn.org>
From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:59:15 -0700
> When vxlan device is closed vxlan socket is freed. This
> operation can race with vxlan-xmit function which
> dereferences vxlan socket. Following patch uses RCU
> mechanism to avoid this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-30 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-28 16:59 [PATCH v2 net 1/2] vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket Pravin B Shelar
2016-10-28 16:59 ` [PATCH v2 net 2/2] geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket Pravin B Shelar
2016-10-30 0:56 ` David Miller
2016-10-30 0:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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