netdev - Re: [PATCH] atm: introduce vcc_pop

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Date:	Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:22:41 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@...lesie.net>
Cc:	chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: introduce vcc_pop_skb()

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 23:33 +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
> 
> Many ATM drivers store vcc in ATM_SKB(skb)->vcc and use it for
> freeing skbs. Now they can just use atm_pop_skb() to free such
> buffers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@...lesie.net>

Note that this one didn't make it into the tree that Dave just pulled.

Not that I didn't think it was a good idea, but it was just separate
from the other "real" fixes — and the tree had already grown into a big
enough pile from your original single patch!

In <20121006154606.GA25588@...ek.podlesie.net> you posted another patch:
> I think there is another problem here. The pppoatm gets a reference
> to atmvcc, but I don't see anything that protects against removal
> of that vcc.
> 
> The vcc uses vcc->sk socket for reference counting, so sock_hold()
> and sock_put() should be used by pppoatm.

That one I think *isn't* needed, because we have properly fixed the
races with vcc_destroy_socket(). I just wanted to check you agree...?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation




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