From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlnic: fix a race in qlcnic_get_stats() Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100819.004415.133897930.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1282128168.2194.49.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amit.salecha@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53132 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111Ab0HSHn4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:43:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1282128168.2194.49.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:42:48 +0200 > Dont clear netdev->stats, it might give transient wrong values to > concurrent stat readers. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Applied.