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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Liang He <windhl@126.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix potential refcount leak
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:50:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221024145048.2b679a59@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89iL==crwYiOpcgx=zVG1porMpMt23RCp=_JGpQmxOwK04w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:36:13 -0700 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> IMO appletalk is probably completely broken.
> 
> atalk_routes_lock is not held while other threads might use rt->dev
> and would not expect rt->dev to be changed under them
> (atalk_route_packet() )
> 
> I would vote to remove it completely, unless someone is willing to
> test any change in it.

+1 for killing all of appletalk.

Arnd, I think you suggested the removal in the past as well, or were
you just saying to remove localtalk ?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-24 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-24 14:47 [PATCH] appletalk: Fix potential refcount leak Liang He
2022-10-24 15:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-10-24 21:50   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-10-25  7:15     ` Arnd Bergmann

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