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Re: [PATCH] ipv6:Fix concurrent access issue in the function inet6_rtm_deladdr

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Nicholas Krause <uboot477@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
>
> This fixes the issue with conncurrent access when calling the function
> inte6_addr_del due to this function using non locked wrapper versions
> of certain functions by locking the routing mutex before and after this
> call with rtnl_lock/unlock. After the unlocking just return the error
> code as normal to signal success or failure to the caller of the function
> inet_6_rtm_addr.
>

Huh? Isn't inet6_rtm_deladdr() already called with rtnl lock?

What bug are you trying to fix?
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[PATCH] ipv6:Fix concurrent access issue in the function inet6_rtm_deladdr Nicholas Krause <uboot477@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 04:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ipv6:Fix concurrent access issue in the function inet6_rtm_deladdr Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com> - 2015-08-05 06:00 +0200

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