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Re: [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL [message #21745 is a reply to message #21733] Mon, 15 October 2007 19:54 Go to previous message
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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:38:57 +0400

> The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to 
> create them in case lookup failed. 
> 
> However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
> after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
> is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the 
> assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network 
> developers like me :) ).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

Thanks for this patch, applied.
 
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