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Re: [PATCH] wireless extensions: play with netns

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On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:46 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This makes wireless extensions netns aware.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Is this ok, or is this racy? I guess what I'm asking is -- will
> > for_each_net() stop iterating over a netns that is going away before the
> > pernet exit op is called? If yes, this should be fine.
> 
> for_each_net requires the rtnl_lock or the net_mutex to be safe.
> You aren't taking either so your code is racy.

So it looks like I can also use rcu_read_lock(), but there's no
for_each_net_rcu(), should there be?

johannes

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