Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pppoatm: protect against freeing of vcc | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:02:29 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 18:39 +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote: > Yes, I missed that one - it's even worse, I introduced that bug > in "[PATCH 1/7] atm: detach protocol before closing vcc". Before that > patch that scenario shouldn't happen because vcc was closed before > calling pppoatm_send(vcc, NULL) - the driver should provide appropriate > synchronization. > > I think that we should just drop that patch. With later changes it's not > necessary - the pppoatm_send() can be safely called while closing vcc.
I'm not running with that patch. This bug exists for br2684 even before it, and I think also for pppoatm.
In solos-pci at least, the ops->close() function doesn't flush all pending skbs for this vcc before returning. So can be a tasklet somewhere which has loaded the address of the vcc->pop function from one of them, and is going to call it in some unspecified amount of time.
Should we make the device's ->close function wait for all TX and RX skbs for this vcc to complete?
-- dwmw2
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