netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] nfnetlink_queue: Use rcu

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Message-ID: <20090608160522.GC6961@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:05:22 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 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 2/5] nfnetlink_queue: Use rcu_barrier() on module
	unload.

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:11:33PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> This module uses rcu_call() thus it should use rcu_barrier() on module unload.
> 
> Also fixed a trivial typo 'nfetlink' -> 'nfnetlink' in comment.

Assuming that netlink_unregister_notifier(), nfnetlink_subsys_unregister(),
and so on prevent any subsequent calls to call_rcu(), looks good!!!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
> ---
> 
>  net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> index 8c86011..71daa09 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  /*
>   * This is a module which is used for queueing packets and communicating with
> - * userspace via nfetlink.
> + * userspace via nfnetlink.
>   *
>   * (C) 2005 by Harald Welte <laforge@...filter.org>
>   * (C) 2007 by Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> @@ -932,6 +932,8 @@ static void __exit nfnetlink_queue_fini(void)
>  #endif
>  	nfnetlink_subsys_unregister(&nfqnl_subsys);
>  	netlink_unregister_notifier(&nfqnl_rtnl_notifier);
> +
> +	rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */
>  }
> 
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("netfilter packet queue handler");
> 
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