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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:16:40 +0900 From: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@...ux-ipv6.org> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] [IPSEC]: Lock state when copying non-atomic fields to user-space Herbert, Monday 26 November 2007 20:07, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:18:45AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > I'm just going to revert this patch for 2.6.24 since we've lived > > with this race for so long anyway. > > Actually, instead of reverting it completely I'm just going to > remove the newly added locks which should be just as effective. > > This would reduce the churn in the code as we'd be putting most > of it back soon anyway. With the patch you sent, the xfrm_state_walk() issue I reported is solved at current net-2.6.25. -- Masahide NAKAMURA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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