From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix (really) race condition between dump_table and destroy
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:16:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3DC200.90909@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295892063.2755.37.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Am 24.01.2011 19:01, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 18:53 +0100, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>
>> No, that can't happen. Before the last refcount is released, the entry
>> is removed from the hash, which requires to take the lock. Each entry
>> contained in the hash table has a refcount of at least 1.
>>
>> If there are no futher concerns, I'm going to apply Pablo's patch.
>
> Thanks, that's perfect by me
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks everyone.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 23:16 [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix (really) race condition between dump_table and destroy Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-24 6:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 7:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 11:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-24 12:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-24 12:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 13:06 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-24 13:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 13:25 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-24 13:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-24 14:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 17:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-01-24 18:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 18:16 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-02-20 20:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-20 20:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: fix race in conntrack " Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-20 20:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing refcount increment during dumps Stephen Hemminger
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