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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	nathan@traverse.com.au
Subject: Re: RX/close vcc race with solos/atmtcp/usbatm/he
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 03:46:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528.034628.200383563.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274872584.20576.13579.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:16:24 +0100

> Can anyone see a better approach -- short of rewriting the whole ATM
> layer to make the locking saner?

There is no doubt in my mind that these VCC objects need to be
refcounted when used like this.

The only other alternative is to make use of something like RCU.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 11:16 RX/close vcc race with solos/atmtcp/usbatm/he David Woodhouse
2010-05-26 18:51 ` [Linux-ATM-General] " Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-05-28 10:46 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-28 13:33   ` David Woodhouse
2010-06-07 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2010-06-16  0:33   ` Nathan Williams
2010-07-27 23:12   ` Nathan Williams
2010-06-07 13:44 ` [Linux-ATM-General] " Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
2010-06-07 14:13   ` David Woodhouse
2010-06-07 15:10     ` Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
2010-06-07 16:04       ` David Woodhouse
2010-06-07 16:37         ` Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
2010-06-07 20:49           ` David Woodhouse
2010-06-08 15:05             ` Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
2010-06-08 16:25               ` David Woodhouse
2010-08-06 16:17 ` [PATCH] solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling David Woodhouse
2010-08-08  6:02   ` David Miller

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