netdev - [PATCH net-next] fib: remove a useless synchronize

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:43:04 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] fib: remove a useless synchronize_rcu() call

fib_nl_delrule() calls synchronize_rcu() for no apparent reason,
while rtnl is held.

I suspect it was done to avoid an atomic_inc_not_zero() in
fib_rules_lookup(), which commit 7fa7cb7109d07 added anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/core/fib_rules.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c
index 21698f8..1bc3f25 100644
--- a/net/core/fib_rules.c
+++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c
@@ -494,7 +494,6 @@ static int fib_nl_delrule(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
 			}
 		}
 
-		synchronize_rcu();
 		notify_rule_change(RTM_DELRULE, rule, ops, nlh,
 				   NETLINK_CB(skb).pid);
 		fib_rule_put(rule);


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