Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2018-07-31

Re: [PATCH] net: remove bogus RCU annotations on socket.wq

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-30 22:23:10
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On 07/30/2018 12:45 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
We never use RCU protection for it, just a lot of cargo-cult
rcu_deference_protects calls.

Note that we do keep the kfree_rcu call for it, as the references through
struct sock are RCU protected and thus might require a grace period before
freeing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Thanks.
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