linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2 v4] net: add uevent socket member

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Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christian.brauner@...ntu.com
Cc:     ebiederm@...ssion.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        serge@...lyn.com, avagin@...tuozzo.com, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2 v4] net: add uevent socket member

From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:17:30 +0100

> This commit adds struct uevent_sock to struct net. Since struct uevent_sock
> records the position of the uevent socket in the uevent socket list we can
> trivially remove it from the uevent socket list during cleanup. This speeds
> up the old removal codepath.
> Note, list_del() will hit __list_del_entry_valid() in its call chain which
> will validate that the element is a member of the list. If it isn't it will
> take care that the list is not modified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>

Applied.