tree 000b9e33ea52a048943fbb7c243fc461733f3ccb
parent c6fcc4fc5f8b592600c7409e769ab68da0fb1eca
author pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> 1477673956 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1477788991 -0400

geneve: avoid using stale geneve socket.

This patch is similar to earlier vxlan patch.
Geneve device close operation frees geneve socket. This
operation can race with geneve-xmit function which
dereferences geneve socket. Following patch uses RCU
mechanism to avoid this situation.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>