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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] neigh: Really delete an arp/neigh entry on "ip neigh delete" or "arp -d"
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 18:07:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170531220757.GI9362@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1705312337280.5775@ja.home.ssi.bg>

On (06/01/17 00:41), Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
> 	So, we do not hold reference to neigh while accessing
> its fields. I suspect we need to move the table lock from
> neigh_remove_one here, for example:

Another thought is to have neigh_remove_one to remove
a neigh only if it is NUD_FAILED - that may potentially remove
more than one entry, but that's probably harmless?

--Sowmini

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-31 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-30 23:52 [PATCH V3] neigh: Really delete an arp/neigh entry on "ip neigh delete" or "arp -d" Sowmini Varadhan
2017-05-31 21:41 ` Julian Anastasov
2017-05-31 21:46   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-05-31 22:41     ` Julian Anastasov
2017-06-01  1:21       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2017-05-31 22:07   ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2017-05-31 23:26 ` David Miller

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