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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-11-05 23:11:51 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-11-07 01:14:48 +0100
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net: avoid potential false sharing in neighbor related code
There are common instances of the following construct : if (n->confirmed != now) n->confirmed = now; A C compiler could legally remove the conditional. Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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