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-----Original Message----- From: Marek Lindner <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:49 PM To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Re: batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for gw_node On Wednesday 02 February 2011 18:37:18 Linus Lüssing wrote: > So after some more discussions with Marek and Sven, it looks like we > have to use the rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and > rcu_assign_pointer() for the bat_priv->curr_gw and curr_gw->orig_node. > > Changes here also include moving the kref_get() from unicast_send_skb() > into gw_get_selected(). The orig_node could have been freed already at > the time the kref_get() was called in unicast_send_skb(). I'd suggest you make a standalone patch because the patches address different problems. Thanks, Marek
