Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] bridge: vlan: use rcu for vlan_list traversal in br_fill_ifinfo

[Ido Schimmel]

Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:47:03PM IDT, ra...@blackwall.org wrote:
>From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
>br_fill_ifinfo is called by br_ifinfo_notify which can be called from
>many contexts with different locks held, sometimes it relies upon
>bridge's spinlock only which is a problem for the vlan code, so use
>explicitly rcu for that to avoid problems.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
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