Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] l2tp locking and ordering fixes

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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:39:15AM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> Hi Greg.
> 
> *Now with better spelling of "upstream".*
> 
> This is for 4.9.
> 
> This is a follow-up to "fix l2tp use-after-free in pppol2tp_sendmsg"
> for 4.14. Pulling on the thread pulled in many other earlier locking
> fixes in between 4.9 and 4.14.
> 
> I've done some minor rework on a few of these to avoid pulling in
> refcount as a replacement for atomic which would have meant 10+ more
> patches (I still had compilation errors at 10).
> 
> Some minor other patch commutation was needed and where it wasn't
> completely trivial, I've added a note to the commit messages.
> 
> The series does include a few non-fixes, but they look safe and mean
> that the fixes (and other backports) apply more cleanly.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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