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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: bridge: refcount fix
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:38:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A92D01C.9050901@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A92CEA4.6020604@gmail.com>

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [PATCH] netfilter: bridge: refcount fix
> 
> commit f216f082b2b37c4943f1e7c393e2786648d48f6f
> ([NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly)
> added a refcount leak on in_dev.
> 
> Instead of using in_dev_get(), we can use __in_dev_get_rcu(),
> as netfilter hooks are running under rcu_read_lock(), as pointed
> by Patrick.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

I've applied it to nf-next-2.6.git since its not as EARTH SHATTERING
as I understood Dave would like it to be for consideration for
net-2.6.git :)

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-24 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 17:18 [PATCH] netfilter: bridge: refcount fix Eric Dumazet
2009-08-24 17:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-24 17:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-08-24 17:38     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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