linux-kernel - Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx

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Message-Id: <200707161235.42637.olaf.kirch@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:35:41 +0200
From:	Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@...cle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

On Monday 16 July 2007 11:12, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> After a bisection session the bad commit turned out to be:
> 
>  29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03 is first bad commit
>  commit 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03
>  Author: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@...cle.com>
>  Date:   Wed Jul 11 19:32:02 2007 -0700
> 
>      [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
> 
>      Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list.
>      Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list.
> 
>      Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@...cle.com>
>      Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Apologies - I'll look into it.

Olaf
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