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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, Elad Raz <e@eladraz.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net: saving irq context for peernet2id()
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:17:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_iQpUjbfMdn4wBL=ibQd=mJmKS+Jh-LmsM_LEz8SkOwcPV0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eced0989-d8bc-d34e-9ecb-8540d80a7173@6wind.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
<nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
>
> Now, we see that "it's needed" and that the analysis was wrong. If a race is
> introduced by this patch, it will be hard to detect and fix it.

It is _not_ needed for protection, it is needed to shut up a warning, I thought
this is pretty clear in the changelog.

If we could invent some way to save BH (*lock_bhsave()), we don't need
to bother this at all, currently we don't.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20  6:52 [Patch net] net: saving irq context for peernet2id() Cong Wang
2016-10-20 10:17 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-10-20 17:17   ` Cong Wang [this message]
2016-10-20 14:58 ` Stephen Smalley
2016-10-20 18:29   ` Cong Wang
2016-10-20 19:04     ` Cong Wang
2016-10-20 19:07     ` Paul Moore
2016-10-20 23:35       ` Cong Wang
2016-10-21  4:47         ` Cong Wang
2016-10-21 13:51           ` Stephen Smalley
2016-10-21 16:19         ` Paul Moore
2016-10-21 18:02           ` Cong Wang
2016-10-21 19:39             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-10-21 20:15               ` Paul Moore
2016-10-21 20:33                 ` David Miller
2016-10-21 20:53                   ` Paul Moore
2016-10-22  1:55                     ` Paul Moore
2016-10-22  3:34                       ` Cong Wang
2016-10-22  3:53                   ` Cong Wang
2016-10-21 20:03             ` Paul Moore
2016-10-22  3:26               ` Cong Wang
2016-10-22 19:02                 ` Paul Moore

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