netdev - Re: rhashtable: Fix potential crash on destroy in rhashtable

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Message-ID: <20150131121547.GA27437@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:15:47 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rhashtable: Fix potential crash on destroy in rhashtable_shrink

On 01/31/15 at 10:22pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> That's too late.  nft_hash will have freed all the elements
> before rhashtable_destroy gets called.

I see, so this is to accomodate nft_hash which doesn't remove
the elements from the hash but just frees them.

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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