On 31 October 2016 at 14:36, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
>     commit c6fcc4fc5f8b592600c7409e769ab68da0fb1eca
>     Author: pravin shelar <[email protected]>
>     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 <[email protected]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
>
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>

I assume you'll also follow up upstream with the unused function. Thanks!
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