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Until now, the subscribers keep track of the subscriptions using reference count at subscriber level. At subscription cancel or subscriber delete, we delete the subscription only if the timer was pending for the subscription. This approach is incorrect as: 1. del_timer() is not SMP safe, if on CPU0 the check for pending timer returns true but CPU1 might schedule the timer callback thereby deleting the subscription. Thus when CPU0 is scheduled, it deletes an invalid subscription. 2. We export tipc_subscrp_report_overlap(), which accesses the subscription pointer multiple times. Meanwhile the subscription timer can expire thereby freeing the subscription and we might continue to access the subscription pointer leading to memory violations. In this commit, we introduce subscription refcount to avoid deleting an invalid subscription. Reported-and-Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.