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From: David Ranch <linux-hams@trinnet.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Denis Arefev <arefev@swemel.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Nikita Marushkin <hfggklm@gmail.com>,
	Ilya Shchipletsov <rabbelkin@mail.ru>,
	Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>,
	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+ccdfb85a561b973219c7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netrom: fix possible deadlock in nr_rt_device_down
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 16:30:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cfc85af-c13a-aa9c-a57c-bf4b6e0f2186@trinnet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250609162642.7cb49915@kernel.org>


That's unclear to me but maybe someone else knowing the code better than 
myself can chime in.  I have to assume having these locks present
are for a reason.

--David
KI6ZHD


On 06/09/2025 04:26 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 16:16:32 -0700 David Ranch wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "the only user of this code".  There are
>> many people using the Linux AX.25 + NETROM stack but we unfortunately
>> don't have a active kernel maintainer for this code today.
>
> Alright, sorry. Either way - these locks are not performance critical
> for you, right?
>

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-09 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-05 10:54 Denis Arefev
2025-06-09 22:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
     [not found]   ` <5f821879-6774-3dc2-e97d-e33b76513088@trinnet.net>
2025-06-09 23:26     ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-06-09 23:30       ` David Ranch [this message]
2025-06-10 13:36         ` Dan Cross
2025-06-10 17:00           ` David Ranch

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