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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:41:42 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@...il.com> Cc: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: fix race between sctp_bind_addr_free() and sctp_bind_addr_conflict() Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 13:01 +0200, Jacek Luczak a écrit : > @Eric, if you will take a look into the code you might notice > that there are few places where list operations could be > optimised and the main question here is do we really care > to have the data ,,safe'' so that things like that won't popup. > The good example can be the set of _local_ functions. > Ahhh... and I'm aware of how tricky can be abuse of RCU. I took a quick look at existing rcu_read_lock() uses in sctp and did not find other problems [or optimizations if you prefer this point of view]. Please elaborate. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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