netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ip

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Date:	Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:51 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ip_frag:

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 22:54 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> index 575f9bd..93e50d0 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
> @@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ static void ip_expire(unsigned long arg)
>  		struct sk_buff *head = qp->q.fragments;
>  
>  		/* Send an ICMP "Fragment Reassembly Timeout" message. */
> -		if ((head->dev = dev_get_by_index(net, qp->iif)) != NULL) {
> +		rcu_read_lock();
> +		if ((head->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, qp->iif)) != NULL)
>  			icmp_send(head, ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED, ICMP_EXC_FRAGTIME, 0);
> -			dev_put(head->dev);
> -		}
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
>  	}

Hi Eric.  If you're going to do more of these, could you please
convert them to the more standard kernel style as well?

	var = func(foo);
	if (var) {
		etc...


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