netdev - [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: should use call

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:15:31 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: should use call_rcu() variant

Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 à 16:42 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:04:09 +0100
> 
> > David, I am not sure this is safe, since we use call_rcu_bh() when
> > freeing one item. One cpu could decide to kfree() one item while another
> > cpu could still use it.
> > 
> > rcu_read_lock_bh() was signalling to others cpu we were in a softirq
> > section, so we were delaying a possible kfree().
> 
> Ok, could we use normal call_rcu() to solve this then?

Yes, this should be good.

Thanks

[PATCH net-next-2.6] inetpeer: should use call_rcu() variant

After commit 7b46ac4e77f3224a (inetpeer: Don't disable BH for initial
fast RCU lookup.), we should use call_rcu() to wait proper RCU grace
period.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv4/inetpeer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
index 86b1d08..dd1b20e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static void unlink_from_pool(struct inet_peer *p, struct inet_peer_base *base)
 	write_sequnlock_bh(&base->lock);
 
 	if (do_free)
-		call_rcu_bh(&p->rcu, inetpeer_free_rcu);
+		call_rcu(&p->rcu, inetpeer_free_rcu);
 	else
 		/* The node is used again.  Decrease the reference counter
 		 * back.  The loop "cleanup -> unlink_from_unused


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