netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] net_sched: Fail if missing mandatory action operation methods

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Message-ID: <529E7AA8.4030906@mojatatu.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:43:20 -0500
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net_sched: Fail if missing mandatory action operation
 methods

On 12/03/13 11:48, David Miller wrote:

> You are going to return with a lock held on error here.
>
> I was going to tell you not to do these fixups so late in the
> function, inside of the write lock, there is no reason for it.
>
> You should do all of this operation handling at the top of
> the function, before the write lock is taken.
>

yikes;->
do you want the whole set resent or the last one only?

cheers,
jamal
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