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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion•org>
To: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei•com>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv6,mcast: always hold idev->lock before mca_lock
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:46:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130628104643.GD15799@order.stressinduktion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CD2C7F.5060200@huawei.com>

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:26:07PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> On 2013/6/27 11:42, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:09:44AM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 00:58 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> >>> I do confirm that if this last hunk is applied the idev->addr_list
> >>> traversal
> >>> is safe.
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know if no one is working on this, I would rebase it
> >>> then. 
> >>
> >> I will rebase my patch on latest net-next. I am assuming this patch
> >> looks good to you...
> > 
> > Yes, I am fine with the apporach you took. Perhaps you could describe
> > why the non-idev-locked call to__ipv6_get_lladdr-call is ok in that place.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > 
> >   Hannes
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I think the problem is clear:
> 
> [...]
> 						
> so i think it is clear to describe the reason.

Sorry, I meant "...in a comment". ;)

Greetings,

  Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-28 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-08  7:41 [Patch net] ipv6,mcast: always hold idev->lock before mca_lock Cong Wang
2013-05-08  9:47 ` dingtianhong
2013-05-08 20:16 ` David Miller
2013-05-11 23:11 ` David Miller
2013-05-27  6:52   ` dingtianhong
2013-06-06  2:35   ` Cong Wang
2013-05-21  7:01 ` dingtianhong
2013-05-21 10:10 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-26 22:58 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-27  3:09   ` Cong Wang
2013-06-27  3:42     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-06-28  6:26       ` Ding Tianhong
2013-06-28 10:46         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]

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