linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] can: af_can.c use rcu

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Message-ID: <4A2D112A.4000308@hartkopp.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:24:58 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de,
	wg@...ndegger.com, vladislav.yasevich@...com, sri@...ibm.com,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] can: af_can.c use rcu_barrier() on module unload.

Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> This module uses rcu_call() thus it should use rcu_barrier()
> on module unload.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>

Thanks Jesper for pointing at this issue!

Acked-By: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>

Btw. i do agree with theses patches to be a bug fix that should go into
2.6.30-rc8 as well as into the stable series.

Best regards,
Oliver


> ---
> 
>  net/can/af_can.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/can/af_can.c b/net/can/af_can.c
> index 10f0528..e733725 100644
> --- a/net/can/af_can.c
> +++ b/net/can/af_can.c
> @@ -903,6 +903,8 @@ static __exit void can_exit(void)
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock(&can_rcvlists_lock);
>  
> +	rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */
> +
>  	kmem_cache_destroy(rcv_cache);
>  }
>  
> 
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