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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPV4 3/5] fib_trie: dump doesnt use RCU
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:43:37 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080123.224337.80401207.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47983304.3030309@trash.net>

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:41:08 +0100

> David Miller wrote:
> > and nothing in that code path retakes the RTNL semaphore.
> 
> Actually we're always holding the rtnl during dumps, nlk->cb_mutex points
> to rtnl_mutex in case of rtnetlink. It used to be held only during the first
> ->dump invocation and not on continuations, but I changed this a few 
> versions ago.

My bad.  Thanks for the correction Patrick.

But continuations can occur on subsequent recvmsg() calls,
does it return to userspace with the mutex held?  If so
I'm pretty sure that's not allowed.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-24  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080123224844.610730277@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-23 22:48 ` [IPV4 1/5] fib_trie: more whitespace cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-24  4:37   ` David Miller
2008-01-23 22:48 ` [IPV4 2/5] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-24  4:38   ` David Miller
2008-01-23 22:48 ` [IPV4 3/5] fib_trie: dump doesnt use RCU Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-24  4:50   ` David Miller
2008-01-24  6:41     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-24  6:43       ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-24  6:47         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-24  7:26           ` David Miller
2008-01-24  6:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-24  7:27         ` David Miller
2008-01-24 21:51           ` [PATCH] fib_trie: rescan if key is lost during dump Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-25  8:23             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-01-25 16:13               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-25 19:01                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-01  0:45             ` David Miller
2008-01-23 22:48 ` [IPV4 4/5] fib_trie: version 0.410 Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-24  4:50   ` David Miller
2008-01-23 22:48 ` [IPV4 5/5] fib_semantics: sparse warnings Stephen Hemminger

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