Re: [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select

Herbert Xu
2009-07-01T07:03:44Z

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:27:32AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> mfence is not needed for normal C code (not using non temporal
> stores) in the Linux memory model on x86 and is a no-op. Only the compile
> time barrier matters.

In that case this bug needs to be digged deeper regardless of
this patch.

Thanks,
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