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SubjectRe: [PATCH] netlink: Re-add locking to netlink_lookup() and seq walker
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:05:38 +0200

> The synchronize_rcu() in netlink_release() introduces unacceptable
> latency. Reintroduce minimal lookup so we can drop the
> synchronize_rcu() until socket destruction has been RCUfied.
>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

Please use an appropriate "Fixes: " tag in the future, this is
especially important for an issue as serious as this one.

Thanks.


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