netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] net: restore the original spinlock to protect unicast list

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Message-Id: <20090802.122927.17579898.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mroos@...ux.ee, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] net: restore the original spinlock to protect
 unicast list

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:12 +0200

> There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears. 
> 
> igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
> -> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync
> 
> Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
> original protecting this list with spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.
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