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authorYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>2014-03-27 12:54:39 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-27 13:08:38 -0400
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tipc: use node list lock to protect tipc_num_links variable
Without properly implicit or explicit read memory barrier, it's unsafe to read an atomic variable with atomic_read() from another thread which is different with the thread of changing the atomic variable with atomic_inc() or atomic_dec(). So a stale tipc_num_links may be got with atomic_read() in tipc_node_get_links(). If the tipc_num_links variable type is converted from atomic to unsigned integer and node list lock is used to protect it, the issue would be avoided. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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