[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH for-2.6.22] IB/ipoib: fix to_ipoib_neigh access race
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon May 28 21:27:41 PDT 2007
> Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at dev.mellanox.co.il>:
> Subject: [PATCH for-2.6.22] IB/ipoib: fix to_ipoib_neigh access race
>
> hard_start_xmit dereferences to_ipoib_neigh when only tx_lock is taken. This
> would only be safe if all calls that modify *to_ipoib_neigh take tx_lock too.
> Currently this is not always true for ipoib_neigh_free and path_rec_completion,
> which results in memory corruption. Fix this race, making sure
> path_rec_completion and ipoib_neigh_free are always called under
> tx_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at dev.mellanox.co.il>
Could you on this patch please?
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MST
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