[Devel] Re: [NETLINK] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:16:18PM +0400, Pavel Emelianov (xemul at sw.ru) wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to put netdev and David in Cc when I first sent it.
> 
> There is a race between netlink_dump_start() and netlink_release()
> that can lead to the situation when a netlink socket with non-zero
> callback is freed.

Out of curiosity, why not to fix a netlink_dump_start() to remove
callback in error path, since in 'no-error' path it removes it in
netlink_dump().

And, btw, can release method be called while socket is being used, I
thought about proper reference counters should prevent this, but not
100% sure with RCU dereferencing of the descriptor.

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	Evgeniy Polyakov