Re: kernel panic in latest vanilla stable, while using nameif with "alive" pppoe interfaces

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michal Ostrowski a écrit :
> Access of po->pppoe_dev is guarded by sk->sk_state & PPPOX_CONNECTED,
> and all use cases now rely on the socket lock.  Because of this, the
> ref-count on the namespace held by the socket object suffices to hold
> the namespace in existence and so we don't need to ref-count the
> namespace in PPPoE. The flush_lock is gone.
> 

Seems good !

But can we use lock_sock() in __pppoe_xmit() context ?



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