netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash

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Message-Id: <20110204.130247.71096930.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:02:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...allels.com
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Don't put partly initialized fdb into hash

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:58:08 +0300

> The fdb_create() puts a new fdb into hash with only addr set. This is
> not good, since there are callers, that search the hash w/o the lock
> and access all the other its fields.
> 
> Applies to current netdev tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Whoa, good catch.  Applied, thanks!
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