netdev - Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

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Message-ID: <20080924061349.GA6679@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:13:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Subject: Re: xfrm_state locking regression...

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:04:30AM +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>
> Or at least add a comment to the dumping function to say that
> we have struct xfrm_state, but in matter of fact it can be
> also struct xfrm_state_walk pointer with displacement, so we
> better check km.state first.

Which is exactly what we do.  The first thing we check in the
loop is km.state.  I really don't see your problem.

Thanks,
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