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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org"
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix ordering of jumpstack allocation and table update
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:21:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022082159.GA20713@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131021121452.GA29250@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:14:53PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:18:13PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 17:57 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Hi Pablo,
> > > 
> > 
> > > > We also need fixes for net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c and
> > > > net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c as well. Could you extend this patch
> > > > and resend?
> > > 
> > > Sure, I can try, but that's going to require a bit of time to sit down and
> > > look at the shared data, access order, dependencies etc. I'm currently
> > > preparing for Edinburgh, so it might be a while before I get a chance to
> > > extend this.
> > 
> > That's basically same code copy/pasted, so it should be relatively easy.
> 
> Ok, I took a look and I think I see what you mean: there are just some
> additional consumers of the tables, so there aren't any additional writers
> afaict (at least, net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c uses rw locks so we don't
> have an issue there).
> 
> Attempt at an updated patch below.

Applied, thanks Will.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-17 13:24 [PATCH] netfilter: fix ordering of jumpstack allocation and table update Will Deacon
2013-10-17 13:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-18 11:15 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-10-18 16:57   ` Will Deacon
2013-10-18 17:18     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-21 12:14       ` Will Deacon
2013-10-22  8:21         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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