From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Qianfeng Zhang <frzhang@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:06:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1AE2AB.50609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100617105526.GA1440@gondor.apana.org.au>
On 06/17/10 18:55, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:57:28PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, I get it now. So this helps to fix problem 3)?
>
> Yes, by allocating real netpoll structures for each device that
> we're polling, instead of sharing a single one amongst all of
> them.
>
> This is also the basis of the solution of the use-after-free bug.
>
Looks reasonable.
Thank you for your patch!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-18 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 12:40 [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 14:49 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 21:56 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 22:48 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:11 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 2/8] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 23:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-25 1:21 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 3:01 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-25 3:30 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 3:50 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 4:27 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 4:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 4:52 ` David Miller
2010-06-25 8:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25 9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-25 10:08 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] netpoll: Add netpoll_tx_running Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 2:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 3:08 ` fired a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com Qianfeng Zhang
2010-06-15 10:28 ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-17 10:57 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:55 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-18 3:06 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2010-06-11 20:03 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Matt Mackall
2010-06-15 10:17 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-15 18:39 ` David Miller
2010-06-16 2:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 3:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 3:33 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-16 4:47 ` David Miller
2010-06-16 23:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-17 10:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-17 21:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16 6:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 5:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16 6:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 16:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-19 10:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 10:53 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 11:54 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 16:05 ` David Miller
2010-07-19 16:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:35 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 5:26 ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-20 6:28 ` David Miller
2010-06-29 12:53 ` Yanko Kaneti
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