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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:34:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BDA830.1000608@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080221083248.5b76b496@extreme>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:28:50 +0100
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
>> index 327e847..b77eb56 100644
>> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
>> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
>> @@ -256,13 +256,19 @@ __nf_conntrack_find(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple)
>>  	struct hlist_node *n;
>>  	unsigned int hash = hash_conntrack(tuple);
>>  
>> +	/* Disable BHs the entire time since we normally need to disable them
>> +	 * at least once for the stats anyway.
>> +	 */
>> +	local_bh_disable();
>>     
>
> Use rcu_read_lock instead. local_bh_disable() won't work with some of the other forms
> of RCU alternatives.
>   

The caller already calls rcu_read_lock(). This is for the per-cpu
statistics.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080216002522.9c4bd0fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-20 21:14 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-20 21:50   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-21 11:28   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-21 16:32     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-21 16:34       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-02-22  0:40     ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-22  0:52       ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-22 17:09         ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-02-25  8:54           ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-27 16:37     ` nf_conntrack fix smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (was: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash) Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-27 16:47       ` nf_conntrack fix smp_processor_id() in preemptible code Patrick McHardy

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