netdev - Re: [v3 PATCH 0/4] mac80211: Fix incorrect usage of rhashtable walk API

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:21:55 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, j@...fi,
        tgraf@...g.ch, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 0/4] mac80211: Fix incorrect usage of rhashtable walk
 API

> The first two patches in this series are bug fixes and should be
> backported to stable.
> 
> They fixes a number of issues with the use of the rhashtable API
> in mac80211.  First of all it converts the use of rashtable walks over
> to a simple linked list.  This is because an rhashtable walk is
> inherently unstable and not meant for uses that require stability,
> e.g., when you're trying to lookup an object to delete.

Thanks a lot, Herbert.

Applied those now, I'll send a pull request to Dave with them. Once that
trickles back into net-next I'll apply the third patch (it doesn't apply
without the others), and then Dave you can take the rhashtable one.

Let me know if you'd prefer I take the rhashtable one through my tree,
which really would be only so you don't have to track the dependency.

NB: it'd be easier in patchwork if you tagged all the patches with v3 in
their own PATCH tag, or put the "v3" tag into the actual subject (not
the "[PATCH 0/4]" tag because evidently patchwork drops the tags and
doesn't track them for the *series* just each *patch* ... so with what
you did nothing is visible in patchwork, even just appending "(v3)" to
the subject of the cover letter would've fixed that...

johannes