Re: [NETLINK] Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 05:30:36 EST


On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:16:50AM +0200, Patrick McHardy (kaber@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > That is what I referred to as error path. Btw, with positive return
> > value we end up in subsequent call to input which will free callback
> > under lock as expected.
>
>
> No, nothing is going to call netlink_dump after the initial call since
> the socket is gone.

Argh, userspace socket's sk_data_rady() if dump returned positive value.
So, callback is not freed to allow to put several pages before
NLMSG_DONE via single dump?

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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