From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge•net.au>
Cc: Eduardo Blanco <ejblanco@google•com>,
lvs-devel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org,
Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs•org>,
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi•bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed race condition at ip_vs.ko module init.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:31:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBFFA6F.3050106@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019152311.GJ6193@verge.net.au>
Am 19.10.2010 17:23, schrieb Simon Horman:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +0100, Eduardo Blanco wrote:
>> Lists were initialized after the module was registered. Multiple ipvsadm
>> processes at module load triggered a race condition that resulted in a null
>> pointer dereference in do_ip_vs_get_ctl(). As a result, __ip_vs_mutex
>> was left locked preventing all further ipvsadm commands.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eduardo J. Blanco <ejblanco@google•com>
>
> Thanks Eduardo.
>
> Patrick, please consider pulling
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/lvs-test-2.6.git for-patrick
>
> to get this change.
Pulled, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 9:26 [PATCH] Fixed race condition at ip_vs.ko module init Eduardo Blanco
2010-10-19 15:23 ` Simon Horman
2010-10-21 8:31 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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