From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:31:56 -0700
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:24:12PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 31.03.2016 21:21, David Miller wrote: >> >From: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> >> >Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:16:18 +0200 >> > >> >Alexei, do you really mind if I apply Danile's patch? > > I don't have strong opinion either way. > Though Hannes's patch below looks simpler and easier to backport. > Yeah, I do care about backports quite a bit more nowadays :) You know, I care a lot about backports too :) But Hannes's patch has the same fundamental issue, I think. If we accept both synchornization styles, false positives are more likely. And in the long term, we can fix the false positive possibilities with the RTNL checks.
