Re: [RFC 2.6.10 5/22] xfrm: Attempt to offload bundled xfrm_states for outbound xfrms

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

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:48:35 -0500
David Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static void xfrm_accel_bundle(struct dst_entry *dst)
> +{
> +     struct xfrm_bundle_list bundle, *xbl, *tmp;
> +     struct net_device *dev = dst->dev;
> +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bundle.node);
> +
> +     if (dev && netif_running(dev) && (dev->features & NETIF_F_IPSEC)) {

netif_running() is only steady while the RTNL semaphore is held,
which is not necessarily true when xfrm_lookup() is invoked.