> Due to patch fe83f8 (netdev: Remove netdev from global shash when > the user is changing interface configuration), netdevs can be > destructed and deallocated by revalidator and RCU threads. When > netdevs with class bsd are destroyed, the rtbsd notifier is > unregistered, possibly causing memory to be freed. This causes a > race condition with the main thread which calls rtbsd_notifier_run > periodically to check for any netdev change events. > > This patch makes the rtbsd module thread-safe via a mutex. > > Note this patch removes rtbsd_notifier_run() in > rtbsd_notifier_register() due to locking requirements. Since the > rtbsd_notifier_run() is always run by the main thread often, > receiving stale notifications from the notifier is unlikely.
s/OVS_EXCLUDES/OVS_EXCLUDED/ otherwise looks reasonable to me. Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamam...@valinux.co.jp> YAMAMOTO Takashi _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
