Re: [IPV6]: Audit all ip6_dst_lookup/ip6_dst_store calls

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:33:25 +1000

> [IPV6]: Audit all ip6_dst_lookup/ip6_dst_store calls
> 
> The current users of ip6_dst_lookup can be divided into two classes:
> 
> 1) The caller holds no locks and is in user-context (UDP).
> 2) The caller does not want to lookup the dst cache at all.
> 
> The second class covers everyone except UDP because most people do
> the cache lookup directly before calling ip6_dst_lookup.  This patch
> adds ip6_sk_dst_lookup for the first class.
> 
> Similarly ip6_dst_store users can be divded into those that need to
> take the socket dst lock and those that don't.  This patch adds
> __ip6_dst_store for those (everyone except UDP/datagram) that don't
> need an extra lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/