[PATCH 1/5] bridge: Use rcu_barrier() instead of syncronize_net() on unload.
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2009-06-26 20:45:45
Subsystem:
ethernet bridge, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ido Schimmel, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
When unloading modules that uses call_rcu() callbacks, then we must use rcu_barrier(). This module uses syncronize_net() which is not enough to be sure that all callback has been completed. Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <redacted> --- net/bridge/br.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
index 9aac521..e1241c7 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br.c@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void __exit br_deinit(void) unregister_pernet_subsys(&br_net_ops); - synchronize_net(); + rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */ br_netfilter_fini(); #if defined(CONFIG_ATM_LANE) || defined(CONFIG_ATM_LANE_MODULE)