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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 5/7] batman-adv: Make bat_priv->curr_gw
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On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:21:38 Linus L=C3=BCssing wrote:
> The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer()
> for the bat_priv->curr_gw need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking.
>=20
> Otherwise we might end up using a curr_gw pointer pointing to already
> freed memory.

Applied in revision 1941.

Thanks,
Marek