netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Fix race conditions in lblcr scheduler

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Message-ID: <20080819074103.GB4387@verge.net.au>
Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:41:06 +1000
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	wensong@...ux-vs.org, ja@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Fix race conditions in lblcr scheduler

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:16:19AM +0200, Sven Wegener wrote:
> We can't access the cache entry outside of our critical read-locked region,
> because someone may free that entry. Also getting an entry under read lock,
> then locking for write and trying to delete that entry looks fishy, but should
> be no problem here, because we're only comparing a pointer. Also there is no
> need for our own rwlock, there is already one in the service structure for use
> in the schedulers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>

Thanks, applied to lvs-2.6
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