netdev - Re: [PATCH net] neighbour: remove neigh

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Date:   Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:48:11 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] neighbour: remove neigh_cleanup() method

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Sat,  7 Dec 2019 12:23:21 -0800

> neigh_cleanup() has not been used for seven years, and was a wrong design.
> 
> Messing with shared pointer in bond_neigh_init() without proper
> memory barriers would at least trigger syzbot complains eventually.
> 
> It is time to remove this stuff.
> 
> Fixes: b63b70d87741 ("IPoIB: Use a private hash table for path lookup in xmit path")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied to net-next.