switchdev: remove pointers from switchdev objects

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When object is used in deferred work, we cannot use pointers in
switchdev object structures because the memory they point at may be already
used by someone else. So rather do local copy of the value.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Jiri Pirko 2015-10-14 19:40:51 +02:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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include/net/switchdev.h

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