netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/3] bonding: fix bond

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:22:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vfalico@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dingtianhong@...wei.com, fubar@...ibm.com,
	andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/3] bonding: fix bond_3ad RCU usage

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:59:42 +0100

> While digging through bond_3ad.c I've found that the RCU usage there is
> just wrong - it's used as a kind of mutex/spinlock instead of RCU.
> 
> v3->v4: remove useless goto and wrap __get_first_agg() in proper RCU.
> 
> v2->v3: make bond_3ad_set_carrier() use RCU read lock for the whole
> function, so that all other functions will be protected by RCU as well.
> This way we can use _rcu variants everywhere.
> 
> v1->v2: use generic primitives instead of _rcu ones cause we can hold RTNL
> lock without RCU one, which is still safe.
> 
> This patchset is on top of bond_3ad.c cleanup:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg265447.html

Series applied, thank you.
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