[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] Lost locking in fl6_sock_lookup

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org
Thu Oct 18 05:00:43 PDT 2007


In article <47174950.6060409 at openvz.org> (at Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:53:52 +0400), Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org> says:

> This routine scans the ipv6_fl_list whose update is
> protected with the socket lock and the ip6_sk_fl_lock.

>  		struct ip6_flowlabel *fl = sfl->fl;
>  		if (fl->label == label) {
> +			read_unlock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
>  			fl->lastuse = jiffies;
>  			atomic_inc(&fl->users);
>  			return fl;

We should increment fl->users within the critical section, shouldn't we?

--yoshfuji




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