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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2008-01-10 22:35:21 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-10 22:35:21 -0800
commit0d89d7944fead211422e21fb7ea70ed3b903a79e (patch)
tree78886ab5b6397fa4446e251ffdfe3f1329947792 /net/decnet
parent5c5482266537fdb24d6b8462540d8f65a6007a97 (diff)
downloadlinux-0d89d7944fead211422e21fb7ea70ed3b903a79e.tar.gz
[DECNET] ROUTE: fix rcu_dereference() uses in /proc/net/decnet_cache
In dn_rt_cache_get_next(), no need to guard seq->private by a
rcu_dereference() since seq is private to the thread running this
function. Reading seq.private once (as guaranted bu rcu_dereference())
or several time if compiler really is dumb enough wont change the
result.
 
But we miss real spots where rcu_dereference() are needed, both in
dn_rt_cache_get_first() and dn_rt_cache_get_next()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/decnet')
-rw-r--r--net/decnet/dn_route.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
index 66663e5d7acd..0e10ff21e292 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
@@ -1665,12 +1665,12 @@ static struct dn_route *dn_rt_cache_get_first(struct seq_file *seq)
 			break;
 		rcu_read_unlock_bh();
 	}
-	return rt;
+	return rcu_dereference(rt);
 }
 
 static struct dn_route *dn_rt_cache_get_next(struct seq_file *seq, struct dn_route *rt)
 {
-	struct dn_rt_cache_iter_state *s = rcu_dereference(seq->private);
+	struct dn_rt_cache_iter_state *s = seq->private;
 
 	rt = rt->u.dst.dn_next;
 	while(!rt) {
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ static struct dn_route *dn_rt_cache_get_next(struct seq_file *seq, struct dn_rou
 		rcu_read_lock_bh();
 		rt = dn_rt_hash_table[s->bucket].chain;
 	}
-	return rt;
+	return rcu_dereference(rt);
 }
 
 static void *dn_rt_cache_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *pos)