netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4][SCTP]: Handle address add/delete events in a more efficient way.

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Message-Id: <20061213.163314.35468200.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:33:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sri@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4][SCTP]: Handle address add/delete events in a more
 efficient way.

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:44:44 -0800

> [SCTP]: Handle address add/delete events in a more efficient way.
> 
> Currently in SCTP, we maintain a local address list by rebuilding the whole
> list from the device list whenever we get a address add/delete event.
> 
> This patch fixes it by only adding/deleting the address for which we
> receive the event.
> 
> Also removed the sctp_local_addr_lock() which is no longer needed as we
> now use list_for_each_safe() to traverse this list. This fixes the bugs
> in sctp_copy_laddrs_xxx() routines where we do copy_to_user() while
> holding this lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>

Applied, thanks Sridhar.
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