Re: net: nfc: BUG and panic in accept() on 3.5-rc2

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 12:54:46 EST


On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 16:58 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 16:50 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> > Eric, Is there something that documents at what state each of the
> > callbacks in the network subsystem can be called? Like a big flow chart
> > of some sorts?
> >
> > I'm asking because I've looked at this as well before sending this mail,
> > and while the fix does look trivial, I wasn't sure whether it is really
> > the correct fix, or the problem is that this callback wasn't supposed be
> > called at all so something else is broken (we had such issue with
> > namespaces and unshare() not long ago).
> >
>
> I am not aware of such 'document'.
>
> Things change, and only *good* reference is actual source code.
>
> Now, take a look at sock_graft()/sock_orphan()/inet_release() ...

I see.

I grepped for release callbacks and the first few in the result (atm,
ax_25) did check for !sk, so I guess I'll just follow what I see in
other code in the future :)

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