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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: fix race between sctp_bind_addr_free() and
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:41:42 +0200
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Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 =C3=A0 13:01 +0200, Jacek Luczak a =C3=A9crit :

> @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 no=
t
find other problems [or optimizations if you prefer this point of view]=
=2E
Please elaborate.