On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote: > On 31 October 2016 at 14:36, Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> wrote: >> Upstream commit: >> commit c6fcc4fc5f8b592600c7409e769ab68da0fb1eca >> Author: pravin shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> >> Date: Fri Oct 28 09:59:15 2016 -0700 >> >> vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket. >> >> When vxlan device is closed vxlan socket is freed. This >> operation can race with vxlan-xmit function which >> dereferences vxlan socket. Following patch uses RCU >> mechanism to avoid this situation. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> >> >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org> > > Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> > Thanks for review. I pushed patch to master and branch-2.6. I am planing on backporting it to 2.5 also. but that patch is going to be significantly different than this patch due to tunnel code divergence.
> I assume you'll also follow up upstream with the unused function. Thanks! yes, I have few patches for upstream tunnel modules. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
