netdev - Re: [PATCH] Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic

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Date:   Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:17:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     acollins@...dlepoint.com
Cc:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, vfalico@...il.com,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic

From: Andrew Collins <acollins@...dlepoint.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:04:42 -0600

> On 09/28/2016 12:06 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>> Andrew Collins posted this patch as RFC in March:
>>     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/603101/
>>
>> It has apparently fallen through the cracks and never applied.
>>
>> It solves a refcnt problem (thanks Nik for pointing out this patch)
> 
> I have been running the patch in production for the past few months
> without issue, in spite of my concerns about the potential side
> effects of the change.  That said, I suspect my use cases are a subset
> of yours.
> 
> If nobody has a better fix yet, I'm happy to respin this patch as
> non-RFC with proper signoff.

Please do so.