From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:04:29 -0700
> After commit 1215e51edad1 ("ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control")
> we always take RTNL lock for ip_ra_control() which is the only place
> we update the list ip_ra_chain, so the ip_ra_lock is no longer needed.
>
> As Eric points out, BH d
On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:04 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> After commit 1215e51edad1 ("ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control")
> we always take RTNL lock for ip_ra_control() which is the only place
> we update the list ip_ra_chain, so the ip_ra_lock is no longer needed.
>
> As Eric points out, BH does
On 28.04.2017 19:04, Cong Wang wrote:
> After commit 1215e51edad1 ("ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control")
> we always take RTNL lock for ip_ra_control() which is the only place
> we update the list ip_ra_chain, so the ip_ra_lock is no longer needed.
>
> As Eric points out, BH does not need to di
After commit 1215e51edad1 ("ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control")
we always take RTNL lock for ip_ra_control() which is the only place
we update the list ip_ra_chain, so the ip_ra_lock is no longer needed.
As Eric points out, BH does not need to disable either, RCU readers
don't care.
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