linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 19/19] rxrpc: Use RCU to access a peer's service connection tree

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:22:19 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 19/19] rxrpc: Use RCU to access a peer's service connection tree

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > +			if (conn->proto.index_key < k.index_key)
> > +				p = p->rb_left;
> > +			else if (conn->proto.index_key > k.index_key)
> > +				p = p->rb_right;
> 
> You still very much need rcu_dereference() for both left and right
> pointers. As well as the first p load.

Bah...  Yes.  Good point.

> > +	rb_link_node(&conn->service_node, parent, pp);
> 
> You want rb_link_node_rcu() here.

Should there be an rb_replace_node_rcu() also?

David