Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: mark racy access on ext->gen_id

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:03:09 +0200

linke li <[email-masked]> wrote:
> In __nf_ct_ext_find(), ext->gen_id can be changed by 
> nf_ct_ext_valid_post(), using WRITE_ONCE. Mark data races on ext->gen_id
> as benign using READ_ONCE. 
> 
> This patch is aimed at reducing the number of benign races reported by
> KCSAN in order to focus future debugging effort on harmful races.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>

Should proably go to nf tree.