[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] netdev: Safely increment refcount in netdev_open().

Joe Stringer joestringer at nicira.com
Sun May 4 23:38:18 UTC 2014


Thanks for review, pushed to master and branch-2.2.

Backport for 2.1 and 2.0 is here:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-May/039761.html


On 3 May 2014 02:52, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:13:42PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > netdev_open() would previously increment a netdev's refcount without
> > holding a lock for it. This commit shifts the locking to protect it.
> >
> > Found by inspection.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer at nicira.com>
>
> Should we backport this?
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
>
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