[ovs-git] [openvswitch/ovs] 136e42: datapath: backport: vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan...

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  Branch: refs/heads/branch-2.6
  Home:   https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs
  Commit: 136e425df95153794f03eac2fa0e7583a391d371
      https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/136e425df95153794f03eac2fa0e7583a391d371
  Author: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
  Date:   2016-10-31 (Mon, 31 Oct 2016)

  Changed paths:
    M datapath/linux/compat/include/net/vxlan.h
    M datapath/linux/compat/vxlan.c

  Log Message:
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  datapath: backport: vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.

Upstream commit:
    commit c6fcc4fc5f8b592600c7409e769ab68da0fb1eca
    Author: pravin shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
    Date:   Fri Oct 28 09:59:15 2016 -0700

    vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.

    When vxlan device is closed vxlan socket is freed. This
    operation can race with vxlan-xmit function which
    dereferences vxlan socket. Following patch uses RCU
    mechanism to avoid this situation.

    Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>