netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: RCU-protect dsa_ptr in struct net

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Message-ID: <524fb6eddd85e1db38934f49635c0a7263ae0994.camel@siemens.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:54:01 +0000
From: "Sverdlin, Alexander" <alexander.sverdlin@...mens.com>
To: "olteanv@...il.com" <olteanv@...il.com>, "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>
CC: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "f.fainelli@...il.com"
	<f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: RCU-protect dsa_ptr in struct net_device

Hello Andrew, Vladimir,

On Fri, 2024-09-13 at 21:27 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>  Thank you for the patch, and I would like you to not give up on it, even
> > if we will go for a different bug fix for 'stable'.
> > 
> > It's just that it makes me a bit uneasy to have this as the bug fix.
> 
> +1
> 
> We should try for a minimal fix for stable, and keep this for
> net-next, given its size.

shall I send a v2 without "_currently" suffix and Mediatek drivers refactored as
Florian proposed?

-- 
Alexander Sverdlin
Siemens AG
www.siemens.com