linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix rtnl locking in setsockopt for anycast and multicast

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpWs804KO4pNM302uc__i90MgUBHODA2cofWQTvCCx74jw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:43:20 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>,
	Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, trinity@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: fix rtnl locking in setsockopt for anycast
 and multicast

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net> wrote:
>
> v2:
>  - based on net
>  - keep dev_get_by_flags_rcu and RCU in ipv6_sock_ac_*
>  - remove two ASSERT_RTNL() that are not necessary

There is no point to keep RCU here. Hannes' reply doesn't make
any sense.
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