netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: Free mpath object when rhashtable insertion fails

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Message-ID: <20190214140451.45vzwoeehxtxjawb@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:04:51 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, j@...fi, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: Free mpath object when rhashtable
 insertion fails

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:04:29PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> Yes, that's a small change in behaviour as to when the generation
> counter is updated, but I'm pretty sure it really only needs updating
> when we inserted something, not if we found an old mpath.

I decided not to do this in my patch as it's not directly related
to the kfree issue.

But I agree that this makes more sense and we should make that
change in another patch.

Thanks!
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