netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] openvswitch: properly refcount vport-vxlan module

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Date:	Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:41:48 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] openvswitch: properly refcount vport-vxlan module

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 14:19, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Currently all the vport_ops list manipulation functions are protected by
> the ovs_lock (even the lookup): the scenario described above should not
> be possible.

This makes all sense and it seems no use-after-free is possible at all
(I didn't notice the lookup path takes the lock). But the macro still
looks ugly and modifies a global struct with a per-module linked symbol.
David, why exactly didn't you like the first patch? Seems to me it does
what is actually needed.

Thanks,
Hannes
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