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Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt

From Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt
Date 2016-02-18 09:10 +0100
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On mer., 2016-02-17 at 16:20 -0800, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> follows up commit 45f6fad84cc3 ("ipv6: add complete rcu protection around
> np->opt") which added mixed rcu/refcount protection to np->opt.
> 
> Given the current implementation of rcu_pointer_handoff(), this has no
> effect at runtime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
> ---

LGTM

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

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[PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> - 2016-02-18 01:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 09:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-02-18 21:30 +0100

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