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

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:32:40PM +0400, Pavel Emelianov (xemul at sw.ru) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Error path is not relevant here. The problem is that we
> keep a calback on a socket that is about to be freed.

Yes, you are right, that it will not be freed in netlink_release(), 
but it will be freed in netlink_dump() after it is processed (in no-error 
path only though).

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	Evgeniy Polyakov