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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Convert atomic_t net::count to refcount_t
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:53:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1515772435.131759.35.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151577086012.22020.9600397187098638726.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 18:28 +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Since net could be obtained from RCU lists,
> and there is a race with net destruction,
> the patch converts net::count to refcount_t.
> 
> This provides sanity checks for the cases of
> incrementing counter of already dead net,
> when maybe_get_net() has to used instead
> of get_net().
> 
> Drivers: allyesconfig and allmodconfig are OK.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
> ---

Is this patch targeting net or net-next tree ?

Thanks for doing that Kirill

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-12 15:28 [PATCH] net: Convert atomic_t net::count to refcount_t Kirill Tkhai
2018-01-12 15:53 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-01-12 15:56   ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-01-15 19:23 ` David Miller

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