netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/13] bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support

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Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:07:39 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/13] bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:56:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:06:56PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't the br_mdb_get() code path be using hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
> > in __br_mdb_ip_get(), then?  Or is something else going on here?
> 
> Indeed it should, I'll fix this up too.

bridge: Use RCU list primitive in __br_mdb_ip_get

As Paul McKenney correctly pointed out, __br_mdb_ip_get needs
to use the RCU list walking primitive in order to work correctly
on platforms where data-dependency ordering is not guaranteed.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 2559fb5..ba30f41 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static struct net_bridge_mdb_entry *__br_mdb_ip_get(
 	struct net_bridge_mdb_entry *mp;
 	struct hlist_node *p;
 
-	hlist_for_each_entry(mp, p, &mdb->mhash[hash], hlist[mdb->ver]) {
+	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(mp, p, &mdb->mhash[hash], hlist[mdb->ver]) {
 		if (dst == mp->addr)
 			return mp;
 	}

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