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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, fruggeri@aristanetworks•com, willemb@google•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 07:14:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1511882095.16595.14.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171128.094855.1432729042351719024.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 09:48 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:00:52 -0800
> 
> > @@ -368,9 +368,11 @@ static void __unregister_prot_hook(struct sock
> *sk, bool sync)
> >       __sock_put(sk);
> >  
> >       if (sync) {
> > +             po->frozen = 1;
> >               spin_unlock(&po->bind_lock);
> >               synchronize_net();
> >               spin_lock(&po->bind_lock);
> > +             po->frozen = 0;
> >       }
> >  }
> >  
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> Maybe you can just set po->num to zero in the bind code path which
> causes
> this problem.  That will prevent this situation entirely.

Yes, I can submit a V2 with this idea implemented, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-28 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28  4:00 [PATCH net] net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier() Eric Dumazet
2017-11-28 10:23 ` Francesco Ruggeri
2017-11-28 15:13   ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-28 14:48 ` David Miller
2017-11-28 15:14   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2017-11-28 16:03     ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2017-11-28 16:14       ` David Miller

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