netdev - Re: [Patch net-next 6/7] net_sched: cls: move allocation in ->init to generic layer

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:49:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 6/7] net_sched: cls: move allocation in ->init
 to generic layer

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Jan 2014 16:14:04 -0800

> +	if (!head->init) {
>  		head->handle = handle;
> -
> -		tcf_tree_lock(tp);
> -		tp->root = head;
> -		tcf_tree_unlock(tp);
> +		head->init = true;
 ...
>  		head->mask = mask;
> -
> -		tcf_tree_lock(tp);
> -		tp->root = head;
> -		tcf_tree_unlock(tp);
> +		head->init = true;

Like Jamal, I don't think these transformations are valid.

You can't make the root visible in the hierarchy until the
->handle and ->mask (respectively) members are initialized
in these two classifiers.

What I'm going to do for now is apply patches 1-5 and 7.

Thanks.
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