netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] rhashtable: add function to replace an element

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Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:45:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tom@...bertland.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] rhashtable: add function to replace an
 element

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:11:09 -0800

> +	lock = rht_bucket_lock(tbl, hash);
> +
> +	spin_lock_bh(lock);
> +
> +	pprev = &tbl->buckets[hash];
> +	rht_for_each(he, tbl, hash) {
> +		if (he != obj_old) {
> +			pprev = &he->next;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		rcu_assign_pointer(obj_new->next, obj_old->next);
> +		rcu_assign_pointer(*pprev, obj_new);
> +		err = 0;
> +		break;

Are you sure this works fine in the presence of both parallel readers and
table expansion passes?
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