From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: acollins@cradlepoint.com
Cc: dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
vfalico@gmail.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:17:31 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161002.201731.2191796054736402577.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <715a8d0a-9245-fd83-bf58-70f863c721f7@cradlepoint.com>
From: Andrew Collins <acollins@cradlepoint.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:04:42 -0600
> On 09/28/2016 12:06 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>> Andrew Collins posted this patch as RFC in March:
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/603101/
>>
>> It has apparently fallen through the cracks and never applied.
>>
>> It solves a refcnt problem (thanks Nik for pointing out this patch)
>
> I have been running the patch in production for the past few months
> without issue, in spite of my concerns about the potential side
> effects of the change. That said, I suspect my use cases are a subset
> of yours.
>
> If nobody has a better fix yet, I'm happy to respin this patch as
> non-RFC with proper signoff.
Please do so.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 18:06 [PATCH] Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic David Ahern
2016-09-28 19:04 ` Andrew Collins
2016-10-03 0:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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