Re: [patch] revert: [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll

From: Olaf Kirch
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 06:36:21 EST


On Monday 16 July 2007 11:12, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> After a bisection session the bad commit turned out to be:
>
> 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03 is first bad commit
> commit 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03
> Author: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jul 11 19:32:02 2007 -0700
>
> [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
>
> Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list.
> Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Apologies - I'll look into it.

Olaf
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