Re: [PATCH] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

[David Ahern]

On 2/20/22 10:54 AM, Niels Dossche wrote:
> valid_lft, prefered_lft and tstamp are always accessed under the lock
> "lock" in other places. Reading these without taking the lock may result
> in inconsistencies regarding the calculation of the valid and preferred
> variables since decisions are taken on these fields for those variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>