netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: fix the xfrm_policy/state

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:57:55 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: fix the xfrm_policy/state_walk

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 03:53:34PM +0800, roy.qing.li@...il.com wrote:
> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> If the walk from input is not empty, the following loop should start from
> the walk->next, since walk is list header, and the last policy in previours
> loop is connected walk tailor by list_move_tail()
> 
> Fixes: 12a169e7d8f(ipsec: Put dumpers on the dump list)
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

This is not a bug fix but an optimisation.  The walker entries are
all marked as dead and will be skipped by the loop.

However, I don't see anything wrong with this optimisation.

Cheers,
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