From 431697eb60d2d36614096aff12bd1b826a9f9bc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Allan Stephens Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:51:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] tipc: Prevent null pointer error when removing a node subscription Prevents a null pointer dereference from occurring if a node subscription is triggered at the same time that the subscribing port or publication is terminating the subscription. The problem arises if the triggering routine asynchronously activates and deregisters the node subscription while deregistration is already underway -- the deregistration routine may find that the pointer it has just verified to be non-NULL is now NULL. To avoid this race condition the triggering routine now simply marks the node subscription as defunct (to prevent it from re-activating) instead of deregistering it. The subscription is now both deregistered and destroyed only when the subscribing port or publication code terminates the node subscription. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- Reading git-format-patch failed