Re: [NET] Fix neighbour tbl->entries race

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:06:03 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:02:59AM +1100, herbert wrote:
> > 
> > In fact, we can make it a bit more effective/fair by checking the
> > previous entries count as well.
> 
> Call me a flip-flop :) This extra check is silly because in the
> cases where it is done it is very unlikely to succeed.  So here
> is yet another update without that check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.  We can make the proposed atomic_inc_return() enhancement
as a followon patch.

Can you cook up a 2.4.x version of this Herbert?  The new neighbour
code is now there too.