netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast router list manipulation

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Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:11:52 +0200
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast router list manipulation

2010/4/27 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>:
> I prefer that the hlist be only accessed through the hlist macro
> objects. Explicit twiddling of links (especially with RCU) exposes
> the code to future bugs.
[...]
> -       port->rlist.pprev = h;
> -       port->rlist.next = p;
> -       rcu_assign_pointer(*h, &port->rlist);
> -       if (p)
> -               p->pprev = &port->rlist.next;
> +       hlist_for_each_entry(p, n, &br->router_list, rlist) {

Shouldn't this be hlist_for_each_entry_rcu?

> +               if ((unsigned long) port >= (unsigned long) p) {
> +                       hlist_add_before_rcu(n, &port->rlist);
> +                       return;
> +               }
> +               last = n;
> +       }
> +
> +       if (last)
> +               hlist_add_after_rcu(last, &port->rlist);
> +       else
> +               hlist_add_head_rcu(&port->rlist, &br->router_list);
>  }
>
[...]

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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