From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: reinstate rtnl in call_netdevice_notifiers() Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120823.092452.436642005687255049.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1345708259.5904.178.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <87harum39o.fsf@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, therbert@google.com, maheshb@google.com To: ebiederm@xmission.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:41017 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751767Ab2HWQYy (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:24:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87harum39o.fsf@xmission.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:16:51 -0700 > Eric Dumazet writes: > >> From: Eric Dumazet >> >> Eric Biederman pointed out that not holding RTNL while calling >> call_netdevice_notifiers() was racy. >> >> This patch is a direct transcription his feedback >> against commit 0115e8e30d6fc (net: remove delay at device dismantle) >> >> Thanks Eric ! > > Looks good to me. > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Applied, thanks.