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vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.
authorpravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:59:15 +0000 (09:59 -0700)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:40:58 +0000 (12:40 -0400)
commit927a8ce92aaa436316a5332e6ea9bf8efabb1b7e
treed3b90ede0217a1129b3a6c4a9a1ae141bdfb3da9
parent412851b6f04095161b18dd6efdb44dafca1bca5e
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.

Orabug: 29927196

Reviewed-by: Rama Nichanamatlu <rama.nichanamatlu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit c6fcc4fc5f8b592600c7409e769ab68da0fb1eca)
Signed-off-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/vxlan.c

Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
drivers/net/vxlan.c
include/net/vxlan.h