On 19/05/2020 11:48, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 19/05/2020 06:25, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 5/18/20 8:14 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>>> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
>>>
>>> the ->nh pointer might become suddenly null while we're selecting the
>>> path and we may dereference it. Dereference it only o
On 19/05/2020 06:25, David Ahern wrote:
> On 5/18/20 8:14 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
>>
>> the ->nh pointer might become suddenly null while we're selecting the
>> path and we may dereference it. Dereference it only once in the
>> beginning and use that if it's not null,
On 5/18/20 8:14 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
>
> the ->nh pointer might become suddenly null while we're selecting the
> path and we may dereference it. Dereference it only once in the
> beginning and use that if it's not null, we rely on the refcounting and
> rcu to protec
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
the ->nh pointer might become suddenly null while we're selecting the
path and we may dereference it. Dereference it only once in the
beginning and use that if it's not null, we rely on the refcounting and
rcu to protect against use-after-free. (This is needed for later
