netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make cleanup_list and net::cleanup

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:42:53 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        vyasevic@...hat.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, mark.rutland@....com,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, leonro@...lanox.com,
        avagin@...tuozzo.com, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        roman.kapl@...go.com,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make cleanup_list and net::cleanup_list of llist type

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:58 AM, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
>  void __put_net(struct net *net)
>  {
>         /* Cleanup the network namespace in process context */
> -       unsigned long flags;
> -
> -       spin_lock_irqsave(&cleanup_list_lock, flags);
> -       list_add(&net->cleanup_list, &cleanup_list);
> -       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cleanup_list_lock, flags);
> -
> +       llist_add(&net->cleanup_list, &cleanup_list);
>         queue_work(netns_wq, &net_cleanup_work);
>  }

Is llist safe against IRQ too?