netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipx: remove the BKL

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20110301.151548.116374357.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15:48 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...stprotocols.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipx: remove the BKL

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2011 00:13:11 +0100

> This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the
> IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this
> is safe to do, because there is no global state
> that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does
> not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely
> while holding it.
> 
> Compile-tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html