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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:24:03 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: amwang@...hat.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, david.ward@...mit.edu, jorge@...2.net Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] 802: fix a possible race condition From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:14:08 +0800 > From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> > > garp_pdu_queue() should ways be called with this spin lock. > garp_uninit_applicant() only holds rtnl lock which is not > enough here. > > Found by code inspection. > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> > Cc: David Ward <david.ward@...mit.edu> > Cc: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@...2.net> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> Under what conditions can entries be removed or added to these RB-trees without the RTNL being held? If such events cannot happen, then no locking is needed. Even if your change is correct and necessary, the answer to my needs to be added to your commit message. Thanks. -- 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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