Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info andip_route_output_slow

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 03:14:43 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 08:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Please hold on, I'll send a v2

I believe your patch should be fine, if you move back the
fib_info_cnt--;

So only do the dev_put() in free_fib_info_rcu().

No need to clear nh_dev to NULL since we are freeing fi at the end of
function.



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