netdev - Re: netlink & rhashtable status

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Message-ID: <20150514025333.GA3853@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 10:53:33 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netlink & rhashtable status

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:18:04AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> For 4.0.3 I replaced the two rhashtable files by current Linus version,
> and problem is gone, so the fix is not in net/netlink

Are you sure the same bug happens in 3.17 too? I can certainly see
this happening after the dynamic rehashing code went in.

But in 3.17 it was doing everything under one single lock so I can't
really see how things can go wrong.

Cheers,
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