From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 1/2] vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket. Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:56:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20161029.205643.527711053369155352.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1477673956-127319-1-git-send-email-pshelar@ovn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: pshelar@ovn.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:54622 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753772AbcJ3A4p (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:56:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1477673956-127319-1-git-send-email-pshelar@ovn.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Pravin B Shelar 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 Applied.