Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [IPV6]: Audit all ip6_dst_lookup/ip6_dst_store calls | From | David Miller <> |
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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>
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