-----"Leon Romanovsky" <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
>To: "Bernard Metzler" <bmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>From: "Leon Romanovsky" <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 08/28/2019 07:03AM
>Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bvanassche@xxxxxxx, jgg@xxxxxxxx,
>dledford@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v3] RDMA/siw: Fix IPv6 addr_list
>locking
>
>On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:07:20AM +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:
>> Walking the address list of an inet6_dev requires
>> appropriate locking. Since the called function
>> siw_listen_address() may sleep, we have to use
>> rtnl_lock() instead of read_lock_bh().
>>
>> Also introduces:
>> - sanity checks if we got a device from
>> in_dev_get() or in6_dev_get().
>> - skipping IPv6 addresses flagged IFA_F_TENTATIVE
>> or IFA_F_DEPRECATED
>>
>> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 6c52fdc244b5 ("rdma/siw: connection management")
>> Signed-off-by: Bernard Metzler <bmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
>Bernand,
>
>Can you please post changelog along your patches?
>
Hi Leon,
Thanks, yes. Let me further try getting it alright ;)
I'll re-post v3.
Sorry!
Bernard.
