vxlan: avoid using stale vxlan socket.

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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@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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pravin shelar 2016-10-28 09:59:15 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/vxlan.c

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include/net/vxlan.h

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