netdev - Re: [PATCH][NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns

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Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	dlezcano@...ibm.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's
 ndisc_recv_ns - V2

In article <47D7A52D.2090007@...ibm.com> (at Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:01 +0100), Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com> says:

> Subject: [PATCH][NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns - V2
> From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> 
> Proxy neighbors do not have any reference counting, so any caller
> of pneigh_lookup (unless it's a netlink triggered add/del routine)
> should _not_ perform any actions on the found proxy entry. 

Good catch and I'm basically okay with this but, 
please rename neigh_check_router to pndisc_check_router().

Thanks.

--yoshfuji

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