netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] tunnels: missing rcu_assign

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Message-Id: <20100909.150251.48516443.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:02:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] tunnels: missing rcu_assign_pointer()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:33:43 +0200

> xfrm4_tunnel_register() & xfrm6_tunnel_register() should
> use rcu_assign_pointer() to make sure previous writes
> (to handler->next) are committed to memory before chain
> insertion.
> 
> deregister functions dont need a particular barrier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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