Re: CVS commit: src/sys/netinet

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:02:53PM +0300, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> Masaru OKI wrote:
> 
> > Module Name:  src
> > Committed By: oki
> > Date:         Fri Mar 12 13:33:19 UTC 2010
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > src/sys/netinet: in.c
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Fixed a number of race conditions in the case of receiving ipv4 packet.
> > found by iij seil team.
> > 
> > 
> > To generate a diff of this commit:
> > cvs rdiff -u -r1.136 -r1.137 src/sys/netinet/in.c
> > 
> > Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
> > copyright notices on the relevant files.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Some questions and remarks:
> 
> * Can you detail a little bit what are the exactly race conditions this
> patch is covering ?

I would like to see that, too.  I think that in the mean time, the patch
should be backed out.

Some synchronization around ifaddrs access may be necessary.

Dave

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