In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Fri, 05 May 2006 17:40:11 -0700 (PDT)),
"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:24:52 +0900 (JST)
>
> > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> It is critical that w
From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:24:52 +0900 (JST)
> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is critical that we free the inet6 device structure using an RCU
callback in order for this locking strategy to work.
An RCU head needs to be added to
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> @@ -2291,10 +2287,9 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_de
> Do not dev_put!
> */
>if (how == 1) {
> - write_lock_bh(&addrconf_lock);
> - dev->ip6_ptr = NULL;
> -
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/include/net/addrconf.h b/include/net/addrconf.h
index 750e250..74dca37 100644
--- a/include/net/addrconf.h
+++ b/include/net/addrconf.h
@@ -127,20 +127,18 @@ extern int unregister_inet6addr_notifier
static inline struct inet6_dev *
