[openib-general] [PATCH] fix cma_leave_mc_groups
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Sep 27 14:10:21 PDT 2006
Krishna Kumar wrote:
> - cma_leave_mc_groups can race with other routines updating
> or reading the mclist, so use lock. Eg while doing a
> rdma_destroy_id(), other processes could be looking at
> this id and de-referencing mclist.
I don't think that there's an issue here.
The mc_list is only accessed by other direct API calls. For example,
rdma_join_multicast() or rdma_leave_multicast(). A user cannot call
rdma_destroy_id() with other API calls.
- Sean
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