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Message-Id: <20090617.185658.226201750.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	robert.olsson@....uu.se, zheng.yan@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/1 v2] Re: [BUG] fib_tries related Oops in 2.6.30

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:08:01 +0200

> ipv4: Fix fib_trie rebalancing, part 2
> 
> My previous patch, which explicitly delays freeing of tnodes by adding
> them to the list to flush them after the update is finished, isn't
> strict enough. It treats exceptionally tnodes without parent, assuming
> they are newly created, so "invisible" for the read side yet.
> 
> But the top tnode doesn't have parent as well, so we have to exclude
> all exceptions (at least until a better way is found). Additionally we
> need to move rcu assignment of this node before flushing, so the
> return type of the trie_rebalance() function is changed.
> 
> Reported-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>

Applied, thanks a lot Jarek.
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