This series fixes a race condition in netconsole's userdata handling where concurrent message transmission could read partially updated userdata fields, resulting in corrupted netconsole output.
The first patch adds a selftest that reproduces the race condition by continuously sending messages while rapidly changing userdata values, detecting any torn reads in the output.
The second patch fixes the issue by ensuring update_userdata() holds the target_list_lock while updating both extradata_complete and userdata_length, preventing readers from seeing inconsistent state.
This targets net tree as it fixes a bug introduced in commit df03f830d099 ("net: netconsole: cache userdata formatted string in netconsole_target").
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte gustavold@gmail.com --- Gustavo Luiz Duarte (2): selftests: netconsole: Add race condition test for userdata corruption netconsole: Fix race condition in between reader and writer of userdata
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 5 ++ .../selftests/drivers/net/netcons_race_userdata.sh | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 92 insertions(+) --- base-commit: ffff5c8fc2af2218a3332b3d5b97654599d50cde change-id: 20251020-netconsole-fix-race-f465f37b57ea
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