From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: fix race between sctp_bind_addr_free() and sctp_bind_addr_conflict()
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:41:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305718902.2991.3.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikVxfxU2uW3AA--q8qt16og=HdDLg@mail.gmail.com>
Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 13:01 +0200, Jacek Luczak a écrit :
> @Eric, if you will take a look into the code you might notice
> that there are few places where list operations could be
> optimised and the main question here is do we really care
> to have the data ,,safe'' so that things like that won't popup.
> The good example can be the set of _local_ functions.
> Ahhh... and I'm aware of how tricky can be abuse of RCU.
I took a quick look at existing rcu_read_lock() uses in sctp and did not
find other problems [or optimizations if you prefer this point of view].
Please elaborate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 7:01 [PATCH] SCTP: fix race between sctp_bind_addr_free() and sctp_bind_addr_conflict() Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 7:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-18 8:06 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 8:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-18 9:02 ` Wei Yongjun
2011-05-18 11:01 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 11:41 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-05-18 11:58 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 12:33 ` Vladislav Yasevich
2011-05-18 12:47 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 12:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-18 13:11 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 13:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-18 13:32 ` Vladislav Yasevich
2011-05-18 13:39 ` Jacek Luczak
2011-05-18 12:06 ` Jacek Luczak
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