netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: fix the hash random initializing race

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:20:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: fix the hash random initializing race


On Friday 2010-08-20 18:17, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> +	if (unlikely(!nf_conntrack_hash_rnd)) {
>> +		unsigned int rand;
>> +
>> +		/* Why not initialize nf_conntrack_rnd in a "init()" function ?
>> +		 * Because there isn't enough entropy when system initializing,
>> +		 * and we initialize it as late as possible. */
>
>This patch is fine but a fine multi line comment is :
>	/* Some
>	 * fine
>	 * comment
>	 */

Actually,

	/*
	 * Some
	 */

But that's in CodingStyle already. Always a good read, even if reread.
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