[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IPoIB: fix race when manipulating mcast SKBs queue
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Dec 17 11:12:39 PST 2008
> ipoib_mcast_free() dequeues SKBs pending on the pkt_queue but needs to do that
> with netif_tx_lock_bh() acquired.
I don't see why this would be required. When ipoib_mcast_free() runs,
the mcast structure has been removed from all lists and I don't see how
any other context could simultaneously be adding packets to pkt_queue.
What is the race that you think this fixes?
- R.
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