netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netconsole: fix NULL pointer dereference

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Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:59:34 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, David.Laight@...LAB.COM,
	vfalico@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netconsole: fix NULL pointer dereference

Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com> :
> On 10/24/2013 07:56 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
[...]
> >> Ditto - might be worth saying:
> >>     /* Acquire lock to wait for any write_msg() to complete. */
> > 
> > Something this subtle definitely requires a comment.
> > 
> Okay, thank you all for the reviews. I will re-submit a v2 with
> the comment edited.

"edited" as in "removed" because:
1. an irq disabling spinlock loudly states what the intent is ("hey, this
   netconsole stuff could be concurrently used in irq or softirq context").
2. the target_list_lock spinlock itself tells where to look for:

drivers/net/netconsole.c
[...]
/* This needs to be a spinlock because write_msg() cannot sleep */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(target_list_lock);

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Ueimor
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