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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Race between neigh_timer_handler and neigh_event_send
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:57:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005115725.7aa6c739.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041005101532.GA935@sgi.com>


Good catch Greg.

All of this trouble is because this is the one spot where we
make reference to the arp_queue packets without neigh->lock
held.

I wish we could avoiding dropping the lock instead, but that
is not the case.  All of these ->solicit() methods can end
up calling back down into the neighbour layer and try to grab
the lock again.

I'll apply your patch, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 10:15 Race between neigh_timer_handler and neigh_event_send Greg Banks
2004-10-05 18:57 ` David S. Miller [this message]

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