netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] dst: no need to take reference on DST

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Message-Id: <20141209.160840.1901007199176473394.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:08:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, ja@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] dst: no need to take reference on DST_NOCACHE
 dsts

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2014 19:19:42 +0100

> Since commit f8864972126899 ("ipv4: fix dst race in sk_dst_get()")
> DST_NOCACHE dst_entries get freed by RCU. So there is no need to get a
> reference on them when we are in rcu protected sections.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied, thanks.
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