From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jbohac@suse.cz,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/4] Fix addrconf race conditions
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:27:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100518.152759.218054760.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100518102550.65ad3fdd@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:25:50 -0700
> I wonder if so many fine grained locks are really necessary at
> all. Everything but timers looks like it is under RTNL mutex
> already.
I can't see any reasonable alternative, and it took weeks to get
a fix at all.
So I'm going to apply Herbert's fixes with the __KERNEL__ header
bit fixed up.
Thanks Herbert!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 17:44 IPv6: race condition in __ipv6_ifa_notify() and dst_free() ? Jiri Bohac
2010-04-20 17:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 20:49 ` Jiri Bohac
2010-04-20 20:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 21:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-20 21:35 ` Jiri Bohac
2010-04-21 21:34 ` Jiri Bohac
2010-04-22 2:32 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-22 7:43 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 14:25 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-22 15:49 ` Jiri Bohac
2010-04-22 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-23 1:54 ` David Miller
2010-04-23 2:10 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-23 15:05 ` Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 11:02 ` [0/4] Fix addrconf race conditions Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 11:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 17:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-18 22:27 ` David Miller
2010-05-18 11:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 11:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] ipv6: Use POSTDAD state Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 11:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address Herbert Xu
2010-05-18 17:25 ` [0/4] Fix addrconf race conditions Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-18 22:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-18 22:35 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-27 15:50 ` IPv6: race condition in __ipv6_ifa_notify() and dst_free() ? Jiri Bohac
2010-04-27 15:55 ` Herbert Xu
2010-05-09 6:48 ` Herbert Xu
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