netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] netfilter: fix the hash random initializing race

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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:56:42 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] netfilter: fix the hash random initializing race

On 21.08.2010 00:48, Changli Gao wrote:
> nf_conntrack_alloc() isn't called with nf_conntrack_lock locked, so hash
> random initializing code maybe executed more than once on different CPUs.
> 

Applied, thanks. However please remember to use proper subject lines,
we have lots of hashes in netfilter, so without stating that its about
nf_conntrack, its hard to relate this to something without reading the
full changelog.
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