On 12/06/12 at 02:14pm, Vlad Yasevich wrote: > Right, but there may be chunks that have cached association with a ref > before sctp_association_free() is called. Now, after free they may > be looking at the transport list for whatever reason... Most places > check assoc->dead, but I don't want to get caught. So, there is > a remote chance that someone may look at transports and would crash > without rcu. You are right, sctp_associate_free() can be called even though there may still be multiple refs on that assoc around. We are currently fine as I believe sk_lock serializes all the accesses but better be safe than sorry. I've respun the patches in a v2 patch series. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
