Re: net: suspicious RCU usage in nf_hook

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 16:23:01 EST


On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 13:16 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> This would permanently leave the kernel in the netstamp_needed state.
>
> I would prefer the patch using a process context to perform the
> cleanup ? Note there is a race window, but probably not a big deal.
>
> net/core/dev.c | 30 ++++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Patch is not complete (for the HAVE_JUMP_LABEL=n case)

Would you like to author/submit it ?

Thanks.