netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: release referenct of ip6_null_entry's dst entry in __ip6_del

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Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:00:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: release referenct of ip6_null_entry's dst entry
 in __ip6_del_rt

From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:55:18 +0800

> 于 2012年09月24日 12:32, Gao feng 写道:
>> 于 2012年09月22日 01:16, David Miller 写道:
>>> From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:25:34 +0800
>>>
>>>> as we hold dst_entry before we call __ip6_del_rt,
>>>> so we should alse call dst_release not only return
>>>> -ENOENT when the rt6_info is ip6_null_entry.
>>>>
>>>> and we already hold the dst entry, so I think it's
>>>> safe to call dst_release out of the write-read lock.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
 ...
> Can you apply this patch?

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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