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Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:23 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > > > Hmm.. > > > > If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore > > in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so > > that your patch can be applied. > > > > Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you > > are going to call arp_invalidate() ? > > While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a > patch for net-2.6 Oh well, of course I must first fix the bug in net-2.6, and wait David pull the fix in net-next-2.6 before sending this rcu conversion. Note: this patch should be sent to stable teams (2.6.34 and up) [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance commit abf9d537fea225 (llc: add support for SO_BINDTODEVICE) added one refcount imbalance in llc_ui_bind(), because dev_getbyhwaddr() doesnt take a reference on device, while dev_get_by_index() does. Fix this using RCU locking. And since an RCU conversion will be done for 2.6.38 for dev_getbyhwaddr(), put the rcu_read_lock/unlock exactly at their final place. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>