netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] rhashtable: make walk safe from softirq context

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Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 05:48:34 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rhashtable: make walk safe from softirq context

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:50:54PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > This interface wasn't designed for use in softirq contexts.
> 
> Well, it clearly was used there. You even gave it a gfp_t argument in
> rhashtable_walk_init(), so you can't really claim it wasn't designed for
> this. I see now that it's ignored, but still?

I see.  This was added behind my back so I wasn't aware of it.

> > Could you please show me who is doing this so I can review that
> > to see whether it's a legitimate use of this API?
> 
> I'm sure you'll say it's not legitimate, but it still exists ;-)
> 
> mesh_plink_broken() gets called from the TX status path, via
> ieee80211s_update_metric().

Let me take a look.

Thanks!
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