Re: [NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically either there is some missing locking here or it does not > need to be "atomic_t". Judging from the way it *appears* to be used > to check if cache entries are up-to-date with the latest changes in > policy, I would guess the former. You're rig

[NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
Whoops, I accidentally sent this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original email below: Hi, I was poking around trying to figure out how to install the Mobile IPv6 daemons this evening and noticed they required a kernel patch, although upon further inspection the kernel patch se

Re: [NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
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[NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-02 Thread Kyle Moffett
Hi, I was poking around trying to figure out how to install the Mobile IPv6 daemons this evening and noticed they required a kernel patch, although upon further inspection the kernel patch seemed to already be applied in 2.6.24. Unfortunately the flow cache appears to be horribly racy. Attached b