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Eric Dumazet 25c7a6d1f9 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>
2019-11-06 16:14:48 -08:00

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