netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

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Message-Id: <20130422.185521.711925108684466632.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:55:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pshelar@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

From: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:41:41 -0700

> Therefore scatchpad in SKB is protected and parallel netlink dump operations
> can go only on different netlink sockets.

What about configuration changes running in parallel with the dump?

You must synchronize with those too, otherwise protecting the
intra-dump state is meaningless since the underlying objects
can change underneath the dump.
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