netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

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Message-Id: <20120221.170210.1476576306533944488.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:02:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregory.v.rose@...el.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:56:14 +0000

> In rtnl_fill_ifinfo the code there uses hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
> so I think that's why it got carried over here.  I can remove it.

It does so because rtnl_fill_ifinfo() runs within an rcu_read_lock()
sequence.

I fixed up the calcit case when I applied your patch, so we're good
now.
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