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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2014-10-10 15:48:16 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-10-10 23:37:28 +0400
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ixgbe: fix race accessing page->_count
This is illegal to use atomic_set(&page->_count, 2) even if we 'own' the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero() to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could loose a refcount increment. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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