From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ipmr_free_table() should be called under taken rtnl_lock
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:53:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559C120F.7020709@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpX=_chUgfy39ifgKkygYKVnh-r9WXK4P6q70xR_Oczv=g@mail.gmail.com>
On 07.07.2015 20:30, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> On 07.07.2015 20:13, Cong Wang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>> ipmr_free_table() calls unregister_netdevice_many() inside
>>>> and changes net_todo_list protected by rtnl_lock
>>>
>>> Did you see any real bug?
>>
>> No, it was result of manual code review.
>>
>>> ipmr_free_table() is called in failure path, in this case there is no
>>> device registered yet, so unregister should be just a nop?
>>
>> However may be it's better to mark this place for future anyway?
>
> Then add a comment there. ;)
As you can see I'm not familiar with this code,
so I would like to ask you to do it. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-07 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-07 15:53 [PATCH 3/3] ipmr_free_table() should be called under taken rtnl_lock Vasily Averin
2015-07-07 17:13 ` Cong Wang
2015-07-07 17:25 ` Vasily Averin
2015-07-07 17:30 ` Cong Wang
2015-07-07 17:53 ` Vasily Averin [this message]
2015-07-08 10:29 ` Vasily Averin
2015-07-08 11:46 ` Vasily Averin
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