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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: maximlevitsky@gmail.com, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:05:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208.100528.193703457.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291548233.2806.212.camel@edumazet-laptop>

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:23:53 +0100

> [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()
> 
> dev_getbyhwaddr() was called under RTNL.
> 
> Rename it to dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu() and change all its caller to now use
> RCU locking instead of RTNL.
> 
> Change arp_ioctl() to use RCU instead of RTNL locking.
> 
> Note: this fix a dev refcount bug in llc
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29  2:09 [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29  2:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] firewire: ohci: restore GUID on resume Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29  2:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] firewire: ohci: restart ISO DMA contexts on resume from low power mode Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29  2:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-04 23:15   ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-05  8:19     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 11:23       ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 12:03         ` [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 17:59           ` David Miller
2010-12-09  3:46             ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16 21:49               ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08 18:05         ` David Miller [this message]
2010-12-08 18:07           ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 18:10             ` David Miller
2010-12-08 18:11               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 12:47   ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-07 12:57     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 13:15       ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-08 23:57       ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11  0:11         ` David Miller
2010-11-29  2:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] firewire: net: invalidate ARP entries of removed nodes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29  2:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] firewire: net: ratelimit error messages Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Stefan Richter
2010-12-04 23:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08  3:32 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-09  1:42   ` Maxim Levitsky
     [not found]   ` <20101208040559.20639.qmail@stuge.se>
     [not found]     ` <1291809485.5421.0.camel@maxim-laptop>
2010-12-12 17:09       ` [PATCH update] firewire: net: add carrier detection Stefan Richter
2010-12-12 23:05         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-13  0:46           ` [PATCH update 2] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-13 23:01             ` [PATCH update 3] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-14 23:46               ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16  1:17               ` Dan Williams

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