From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: synchronize bind() with RTM_NEWADDR notifications Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101021.035004.212683583.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1287655930-16879-1-git-send-email-timo.teras@iki.fi> <1287656753.6871.46.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4CC018E1.3000906@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: timo.teras@iki.fi Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44300 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755081Ab0JUKtl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:49:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CC018E1.3000906@iki.fi> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: =46rom: Timo Ter=E4s Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:41:37 +0300 > Is inet_bind() called from non-userland context? If yes, then this is= a > bad idea. Otherwise I don't think it's that hot path... It is.