netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr

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Message-ID: <20121206184433.GE16122@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:44:33 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list

On 12/06/12 at 01:35pm, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> We may want to mark transports as dead sooner.  Probably right about
> the time we pull them off the list.

We mark it dead in sctp_transport_free() which is called at the
end of sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Do you want to mark it dead at the
beginning of sctp_assoc_rm_peer() as well? (We still need to
mark in sctp_transport_free() anyway).

> When displaying, we may want to
> look at transport->dead, and skip them.  It will reduce the probability
> that we would be looking at a transport that's about to go away.

Agreed.
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