[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 3/3] ipmr_free_table() should be called under taken rtnl_lock

Vasily Averin vvs at virtuozzo.com
Tue Jul 7 17:53:19 UTC 2015


On 07.07.2015 20:30, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs at virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> On 07.07.2015 20:13, Cong Wang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs at virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>> ipmr_free_table() calls unregister_netdevice_many() inside
>>>> and changes net_todo_list protected by rtnl_lock
>>>
>>> Did you see any real bug?
>>
>> No, it was result of manual code review.
>>
>>> ipmr_free_table() is called in failure path, in this case there is no
>>> device registered yet, so unregister should be just a nop?
>>
>> However may be it's better to mark this place for future anyway?
> 
> Then add a comment there. ;)

As you can see I'm not familiar with this code,
so I would like to ask you to do it. :)


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