netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kgroeneveld@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix race condition in several drivers when
 reading stats

From: Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:30:50 -0400

> Fix race condition in several network drivers when reading stats on 32bit
> UP architectures.  These drivers update their stats in a BH context and
> therefore should use u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh/u64_stats_fetch_retry_bh
> instead of u64_stats_fetch_begin/u64_stats_fetch_retry when reading the
> stats.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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