Thread (4 messages) flat view 4 messages, 2 authors, 2016-10-30

Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2016-10-30 00:56:51

From: Pravin B Shelar <redacted>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:59:16 -0700
This patch is similar to earlier vxlan patch.
Geneve device close operation frees geneve socket. This
operation can race with geneve-xmit function which
dereferences geneve socket. Following patch uses RCU
mechanism to avoid this situation.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <redacted>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <redacted>
Applied.
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