netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

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Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:33:47 +0100
From:   Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@...nt.be>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

It appears that the mail server of the university is changing tabs to spaces.
I will resend it from my personal gmail address, since that does not seem to
change tabs to spaces. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks!

On 23/02/2022 01:43, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:54:40 +0100 Niels Dossche wrote:
>> valid_lft, prefered_lft and tstamp are always accessed under the lock
>> "lock" in other places. Reading these without taking the lock may result
>> in inconsistencies regarding the calculation of the valid and preferred
>> variables since decisions are taken on these fields for those variables.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@...nt.be>
> 
> Looks like your email client has replaced tabs with spaces, 
> so the patch won't apply. Could you try resending with git send-email?
> Please add Dave's review tag in the next version, and the subject
> tag should be [PATCH net v2]. Thanks!