netdev - Re: mmotm 2010-04-05-16-09 uploaded

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Date:	Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:49:16 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-04-05-16-09 uploaded

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:36:07 +0200, Patrick McHardy said:
> 
>> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 
>>> Well, it *changed* it.  Does the rcu_defererence_check() only fire on the
>>> first time it hits something, so we've fixed the first one and now we get to
>>> see the second one?
>> It appears that way, otherwise you should have seen a second warning in
>> nf_conntrack_ecache the last time.
>>
>>> (For what it's worth, if this is going to be one-at-a-time whack-a-mole, I'm
>>> OK on that, just want to know up front.)
>> I went through the other files and I believe this should be it.
>> We already removed most of these incorrect rcu_dereference()
>> calls a while back.
> 
> Confirming - the second version of the patch fixes all the network-related
> RCU complaints I've been able to trigger...

Thanks. I've added the attached commit to the nf-next tree. I'll push
it to Dave shortly so this can get included in the next tree.


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