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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Andy Roulin <aroulin@nvidia.com>
Cc: fruggeri@arista.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: neighbour netlink notifications delivered in wrong order
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 20:19:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220606201910.2da95056@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed6768c1-80b8-aee2-e545-b51661d49336@nvidia.com>

On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 19:07:04 -0700
Andy Roulin <aroulin@nvidia.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
> index 54625287ee5b..a91dfcbfc01c 100644
> --- a/net/core/neighbour.c
> +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
> @@ -2531,23 +2531,19 @@ static int neigh_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, 
> struct neighbour *neigh,
>   	if (nla_put(skb, NDA_DST, neigh->tbl->key_len, neigh->primary_key))
>   		goto nla_put_failure;
> 
> -	read_lock_bh(&neigh->lock);
>   	ndm->ndm_state	 = neigh->nud_state;

Accessing neighbor state outside of lock is not safe.

But you should be able to use RCU here??

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-07  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-06 23:01 neighbour netlink notifications delivered in wrong order Francesco Ruggeri
2022-06-07  2:07 ` Andy Roulin
2022-06-07  3:19   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-06-07 16:29     ` Francesco Ruggeri
2022-06-07 17:32       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-06-07 20:03         ` Francesco Ruggeri
2022-06-08  3:49           ` Andy Roulin
2022-06-09 16:40             ` Francesco Ruggeri
2022-06-10 16:18               ` Francesco Ruggeri
2022-06-16 18:33                 ` Andy Roulin
2023-04-11 19:49                   ` Kevin Mitchell
2023-04-12  0:41             ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-04-12  1:22               ` Stephen Hemminger

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