Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] bridge: vlan: use rcu for vlan_list traversal in br_fill_ifinfo

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Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:47:03PM IDT, razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>br_fill_ifinfo is called by br_ifinfo_notify which can be called from
>many contexts with different locks held, sometimes it relies upon
>bridge's spinlock only which is a problem for the vlan code, so use
>explicitly rcu for that to avoid problems.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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