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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: idosch@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com, dsahern@gmail.com,
	mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Add module reference to FIB notifiers
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:34:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170901.203430.1204195231321352853.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170901091517.31271-1-idosch@mellanox.com>

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2017 12:15:17 +0300

> When a listener registers to the FIB notification chain it receives a
> dump of the FIB entries and rules from existing address families by
> invoking their dump operations.
> 
> While we call into these modules we need to make sure they aren't
> removed. Do that by increasing their reference count before invoking
> their dump operations and decrease it afterwards.
> 
> Fixes: 04b1d4e50e82 ("net: core: Make the FIB notification chain generic")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Oops, yes, you'll need to do this.

Applied, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-02  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01  9:15 [PATCH net-next] net: Add module reference to FIB notifiers Ido Schimmel
2017-09-02  3:34 ` David Miller [this message]

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