Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Annotate change of locking mechanism for np->opt

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 03:08:53 EST


On mer., 2016-02-17 at 16:20 -0800, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> follows up commit 45f6fad84cc3 ("ipv6: add complete rcu protection around
> np->opt") which added mixed rcu/refcount protection to np->opt.
>
> Given the current implementation of rcu_pointer_handoff(), this has no
> effect at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

LGTM

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>