On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:56:50PM +0000, Wan, Kaike wrote: > > I do wonder if it is a good idea to call ib_nl_send_msg with a spinlock held > > though.. Would be nice to see that go away. > > We have to hold the lock to protect against a race condition that a > quick response will try to free the request from the > ib_nl_request_list before we even put it on the list.
Put is on the list first? Use a kref? Doesn't look like a big deal to clean this up. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/