From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, containers@lists.osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/9] ipv4: remove static flush_delay variable
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:43:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k5fyytid.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215177432-25934-3-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> (Denis V. Lunev's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:17:06 +0400")
"Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org> writes:
> flush delay is used as an external storage for net.ipv4.route.flush sysctl
> entry. It is write-only.
>
> The ctl_table->data for this entry is used once. Fix this case to point
> to the stack to remove global variable. Do this to avoid additional
> variable on struct net in the next patch.
>
> Possible race (as it was before) accessing this local variable is removed
> using flush_mutex.
FYI. You can avoid the locking entirely by defining a local struct ctl_table variable
on the stack.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-04 13:16 [PATCH net-next 0/9] selective (per/namespace) flush of rt_cache Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 1/9] netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 2/9] net: add fib_rules_ops to flush_cache method Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] ipv4: remove static flush_delay variable Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-07 8:43 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-07-07 11:26 ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-08 10:05 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] netns: register net.ipv4.route.flush in each namespace Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] netns: make rt_secret_rebuild timer per namespace Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] netns: add struct net parameter to rt_cache_invalidate Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] ipv4: pass current value of rt_genid into rt_hash Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] netns: place rt_genid into struct net Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-04 13:17 ` [PATCH net-next 9/9] netns: selective flush of rt_cache Denis V. Lunev
[not found] ` <1215177360.27873.50.camel-aPCOdVxUTlgvJsYlp49lxw@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-06 3:55 ` [PATCH net-next 0/9] selective (per/namespace) " David Miller
2008-07-07 10:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-07 10:39 ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-07-07 10:51 ` Denis V. Lunev
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