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Message-ID: <20130211215144.GA2116@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:51:44 -0500 From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, amwang@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] netpoll: Cleanup netpoll locking and sparse warnings On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:11:35PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:25:29 -0500 > > > I was fixing some sparse warnings in netpoll from a previous commit, and it was > > pointed out to me that one of the rcu_dereferences that I fixed up in > > __netpoll_cleanup might not have been correct. On investigation I found that > > rtnl_dereference should have been the correct macro to use, but we had a path in > > which we weren't properly holding the rtnl lock. This patch series fixes up the > > locking in the __netpoll_free_rcu path, and then properly corrects the sparse > > warnings in the netpoll.c file that I previously introduced. > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> > > I happen to know that this is meant for net-next, but you really need > to state that clearly in your patch submissions. > Understood, sorry Dave. Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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