netdev - Re: [PATCH (regression)] Fragments: fix race between inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH (regression)] Fragments: fix race between
 inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret_rebuild

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:42:56 +0400

> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > Maybe it's a matter of taste: since there is this "#ifdef CONFIG_SMP",
> > and the new comment concerns with "other CPU", why this re-calculation
> > isn't done only for SMP? 
> 
> Because the hash value is required also *outside* this ifdef and adding
> a fancier logic is probably not good for a -rc7 fix.
> 
> However, I will re-consider this for net-next.
> 
> > And, btw., probably __acquires/__releases annotations could be added
> > with this patch.
> 
> This is also a net-next material (I hope Dave agrees with me on both).

I do. :-)
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