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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:06:19 +0800
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On 06/17/10 18:55, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:57:28PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, I get it now. So this helps to fix problem 3)?
>
> Yes, by allocating real netpoll structures for each device that
> we're polling, instead of sharing a single one amongst all of
> them.
>
> This is also the basis of the solution of the use-after-free bug.
>

Looks reasonable.
Thank you for your patch!