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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>,
	"saeedm@nvidia.com" <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	"tariqt@nvidia.com" <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>, Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>,
	Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:07:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z4DxS37yJ2EfI_rS@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250110-diligent-woodpecker-of-promotion-3cbcb1@leitao>

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 01:49:44AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
>
> That is what I though originally as well, but I was not convinced. While
> reading the code, I understood that, if new_tbl is not NULL, then
> PTR_ERR(data) will be -ENOENT.
> 
> In which case `net_tbl` will not be NULL, and PTR_ERR(data) != -ENOENT?

The bug arises when an insertion succeeds.  So new_tbl is NULL.
The original value of data should have been -ENOENT, however,
it gets overwritten after rhashtable_insert_one (data is now
NULL).

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-10 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-28 12:16 [PATCH] rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock Breno Leitao
2024-11-29  5:47 ` Herbert Xu
2024-12-02 20:16   ` Breno Leitao
2024-12-03 20:16 ` Tejun Heo
2024-12-04  1:34   ` Herbert Xu
2024-12-12 12:33 ` Herbert Xu
2024-12-21  9:06   ` Herbert Xu
2025-01-02 10:15     ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-09  3:16       ` Michael Kelley
2025-01-09 10:15         ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-10  9:27           ` Herbert Xu
2025-01-10  9:49             ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-10 10:07               ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2025-01-10 14:46             ` Zaslonko Mikhail
2025-01-10 16:59             ` Michael Kelley
2025-01-10 17:24               ` [v2 PATCH] rhashtable: Fix rhashtable_try_insert test Herbert Xu
2025-01-10 18:22                 ` Michael Kelley
2025-01-14  3:15                   ` [v3 " Herbert Xu
2025-01-14 11:58                     ` Michael Kelley
2025-01-15 15:15                     ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-16  9:10                       ` Herbert Xu
2025-01-16 11:48                     ` Alexander Gordeev
2025-01-17 13:20                     ` Zaslonko Mikhail
2025-01-13 19:50 ` [PATCH] rhashtable: Fix potential deadlock by moving schedule_work outside lock Guenter Roeck
2025-01-14  3:23   ` Herbert Xu

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