From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:33:16 +0200 (MEST) > netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix race between htable_destroy and htable_gc > > Deleting a timer with del_timer doesn't guarantee, that the > timer function is not running at the moment of deletion. Thus > in the xt_hashlimit case we can get into a ticklish situation > when the htable_gc rearms the timer back and we'll actually > delete an entry with a pending timer. > > Fix it with using del_timer_sync(). > > AFAIK del_timer_sync checks for the timer to be pending by > itself, so I remove the check. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Also applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
