4.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a717e3f740803cc88bd5c9a70c93504f6a368663 ] There is no guarantees that callers of the TX path will hold the RCU lock. Grab it explicitly. Fixes: fceb9c3e3825 ("geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/geneve.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c @@ -881,12 +881,14 @@ static netdev_tx_t geneve_xmit(struct sk info = &geneve->info; } + rcu_read_lock(); #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) if (info->mode & IP_TUNNEL_INFO_IPV6) err = geneve6_xmit_skb(skb, dev, geneve, info); else #endif err = geneve_xmit_skb(skb, dev, geneve, info); + rcu_read_unlock(); if (likely(!err)) return NETDEV_TX_OK;