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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] vlan: Optimize multiple unregistration
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:30:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEA8813.9090505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE9D000.90603@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>>
>>> Indeed, but unregister_vlan_dev() destroys the group once the
>>> count has reached zero, so we must not access it after that.
>> Well, I hoped call_rcu() callback doesnt fire and kfree(grp) until we exited
>> from unregister_vlan_dev_alls(), with RTNL locked...
> 
> The RTNL is a mutex, so it shouldn't prevent call_rcu from firing.

Oops this is totally right of course, so your patch is actually a bug fix :)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 17:06 [PATCH 4/6] vlan: Optimize multiple unregistration Eric Dumazet
2009-10-28 20:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-28 20:47   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 13:45     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-29 14:23       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-29 14:30         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 14:33           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-29 14:43             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-29 17:25               ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-30  6:30                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-10-30  6:43                   ` David Miller

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