linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] sunrpc/auth_gss: Call rcu

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Message-ID: <20090608131148.10052.39869.stgit@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:11:48 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>,
	"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: [PATCH 5/5] sunrpc/auth_gss: Call rcu_barrier() on module unload.

As the module uses rcu_call() we should make sure that all
rcu callback has been completed before removing the code.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
---

 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index e630b38..66d458f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ static void __exit exit_rpcsec_gss(void)
 {
 	gss_svc_shutdown();
 	rpcauth_unregister(&authgss_ops);
+	rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */
 }
 
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

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