Revision d3e17183b9820ccf3c1aacc5ec5459a23a574ba7 authored by David S. Miller on 22 February 2016, 03:03:21 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 22 February 2016, 03:03:21 UTC
Murali Karicheri says:
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net: ti: netcp: restore get/set_pad_info() functionality
This series fixes a regression and add some improvements for the ease
of maintainance. Incorporated comments against v1.
Changelogs:
v2 : combined 2-3 into one patch as this involves a header change
fixed a parse warning in 3/4 per comment from Arnd.
Removed Sign-off from Arnd against 1/4
added comments in 3/3 to alert on the usage of sw data per review
comments
v1 : added 2-4 to accomodate feedback received from review
v0 : initial version to fix the regression (From Grygorii)
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
TODO
Do the ax25_list_lock, ax25_dev_lock, linkfail_lockreally, ax25_frag_lock and
listen_lock have to be bh-safe?
Do the netrom and rose locks have to be bh-safe?
A device might be deleted after lookup in the SIOCADDRT ioctl but before it's
being used.
Routes to a device being taken down might be deleted by ax25_rt_device_down
but added by somebody else before the device has been deleted fully.
The ax25_rt_find_route synopsys is pervert but I somehow had to deal with
the race caused by the static variable in it's previous implementation.
Implement proper socket locking in netrom and rose.
Check socket locking when ax25_rcv is sending to raw sockets. In particular
ax25_send_to_raw() seems fishy. Heck - ax25_rcv is fishy.
Handle XID and TEST frames properly.
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