netdev - Re: [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL

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Message-Id: <20071015.125435.08669923.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:38:57 +0400

> The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to 
> create them in case lookup failed. 
> 
> However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
> after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
> is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the 
> assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network 
> developers like me :) ).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Thanks for this patch, applied.
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