From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 05:14:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161006031456.GF19216@otheros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160929152258.8217-1-sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 05:22:58PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The batadv_hard_iface::neigh_list is accessed via rcu based primitives.
> Thus all operations done on it have to fulfill the requirements by RCU. So
> using non-RCU mechanisms like hlist_add_head is not allowed because it
> misses the barriers required to protect concurrent readers when accessing
> the data behind the pointer.
>
> Fixes: fed2826b490c ("batman-adv: add list of unique single hop neighbors per hard-interface")
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-06 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 15:22 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: Modify neigh_list only with rcu-list functions Sven Eckelmann
2016-10-06 3:14 ` Linus Lüssing [this message]
2016-10-18 11:32 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [maint] " Sven Eckelmann
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