Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nat: use atomic bit op to clear the _SRC_NAT_DONE_BIT

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:38:11PM +0800, Liping Zhang wrote:
> From: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We need to clear the IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE_BIT to indicate that the ct has
> been removed from nat_bysource table. But unfortunately, we use the
> non-atomic bit operation: "ct->status &= ~IPS_NAT_DONE_MASK". So
> there's a race condition that we may clear the _DYING_BIT set by
> another CPU unexpectedly.
> 
> Since we don't care about the IPS_DST_NAT_DONE_BIT, so just using
> clear_bit to clear the IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE_BIT is enough.
> 
> Also note, this is the last user which use the non-atomic bit operation
> to update the confirmed ct->status.

Applied to nf, thanks.

Does your patchset for nf-next depend on this in any way? If so, you
will have to wait until this propagates to nf-next.
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