From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: fix a race in egress prio management
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130718.130734.1267527837449730772.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374165310.6097.39.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:35:10 -0700
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> egress_priority_map[] hash table updates are protected by rtnl,
> and we never remove elements until device is dismantled.
>
> We have to make sure that before inserting an new element in hash table,
> all its fields are committed to memory or else another cpu could
> find corrupt values and crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-18 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 14:19 [PATCH] vlan: mask vlan prio bits Eric Dumazet
2013-07-18 15:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-07-18 16:35 ` [PATCH] vlan: fix a race in egress prio management Eric Dumazet
2013-07-18 20:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-07-18 20:05 ` [PATCH] vlan: mask vlan prio bits David Miller
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