Am 01.03.2018 um 12:30 schrieb Kirill Tkhai: > Out of bounds of this patch, just as a report to wireless subsystem > maintainer, destroy_radio() increaments hwsim_radios_generation > without hwsim_radio_lock, so this may need one more patch to fix. > The lock is here implicit, because the value only could change at init (where netlink callbacks are deactivated and always happens sequential) or in netlink callbacks. The only reader of this variable is the dump callback, and the only other writers are also netlink callbacks and because they are implicitly not parallel (because the parallel flag is not set), there could be no race condition. Maybe this should be documented somehow, especially if somebody got the idea to allow parallel callbacks :-) -- M.Sc. Benjamin Beichler Universität Rostock, Fakultät für Informatik und Elektrotechnik Institut für Angewandte Mikroelektronik und Datentechnik University of Rostock, Department of CS and EE Institute of Applied Microelectronics and CE Richard-Wagner-Straße 31 18119 Rostock Deutschland/Germany phone: +49 (0) 381 498 - 7278 email: Benjamin.Beichler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www: http://www.imd.uni-rostock.de/
