netdev - Re: [NET]: Fix fib

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Message-ID: <20070322191711.GY521@postel.suug.ch>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:17:11 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kernel Netdev Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [NET]: Fix fib_rules dump race

* Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 2007-03-22 15:38

> [NET]: Fix fib_rules dump race
> 
> fib_rules_dump needs to use list_for_each_entry_rcu to protect against
> concurrent changes to the rules list.

Good catch, it's not serialized with add/del by rtnl mutex if the
dump gets interrupted.
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