From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6 2/5]: refcount qdisc->dev
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:36:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040804093604.65748762.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410FADBC.6000904@trash.net>
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:22:36 +0200
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> This patch adds refcounting for qdisc->dev to avoid accessing freed memory
> from the __qdisc_destroy rcu-callback when the device is unregistered.
> Without
> refcounting netdev_wait_allrefs could free the device before __qdisc_destroy
> is done.
We do need this. Applied, thanks Patrick.
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2004-08-03 15:22 [PATCH 2.6 2/5]: refcount qdisc->dev Patrick McHardy
2004-08-04 16:36 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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