From: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com (Andy Shevchenko)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 next-next] net: hns: enet specifies a reference to dsaf
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:36:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453282570.2521.130.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569F2DEC.9040209@huawei.com>
On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 14:49 +0800, Yankejian (Hackim Yim) wrote:
> > > +
> > > > > > + snprintf(ae_dev->name, AE_NAME_SIZE, "%s%d",
> > > > > > DSAF_DEVICE_NAME,
> > > > > > + ?(int)atomic_inc_return(&id));
> > If you bind/unbind device enough times you may get an overflow and
> > end
> > up with name of existing device (if you have 1+ of them in the
> > system).
> >
> > To avoid such situation better to use IDA/IDR framework.
> >
> Hi, Andy
> Thanks again for your suggestion.
> It seems that using IDA/IDR framework is better, but all of the
> functions must be serialized by lock.
AFAIR it's designed in a way you don't need to do any additional
locking or synchronization.
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-13 3:14 [PATCH v2 next-next] net: hns: enet specifies a reference to dsaf Kejian Yan
2016-01-14 3:00 ` Yisen Zhuang
2016-01-14 9:43 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-01-18 11:35 ` Yankejian (Hackim Yim)
[not found] ` <569F2DEC.9040209@huawei.com>
2016-01-20 9:36 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2016-01-20 11:10 ` Yankejian (Hackim Yim)
2016-01-15 2:28 ` Rob Herring
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2016-01-13 3:01 Kejian Yan
2016-01-13 2:52 ` Yankejian (Hackim Yim)
2016-01-13 2:54 ` David Miller
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