netdev - Re: [Patch net] ipv6,mcast: always hold idev->lock before mca

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Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:42:04 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dingtianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv6,mcast: always hold idev->lock before mca_lock

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:09:44AM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 00:58 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > I do confirm that if this last hunk is applied the idev->addr_list
> > traversal
> > is safe.
> > 
> > Please let me know if no one is working on this, I would rebase it
> > then. 
> 
> I will rebase my patch on latest net-next. I am assuming this patch
> looks good to you...

Yes, I am fine with the apporach you took. Perhaps you could describe
why the non-idev-locked call to__ipv6_get_lladdr-call is ok in that place.

Thanks a lot,

  Hannes

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