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SubjectRe: dn_route.c momentarily exiting RCU read-side critical section
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:12:03AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > net/decnet/dn_route.c in dn_rt_cache_get_next() is as follows:
> > >> >
> > >> > 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);
> > >> >
> > >> > rt = rt->u.dst.dn_next;
> > >> > while(!rt) {
> > >> > rcu_read_unlock_bh();
> > >> > if (--s->bucket < 0)
> > >> > break;
>
> Thank you for the info! Stupid question #3: what sequence of events
> would the smp_read_barrier_depends() be defending against?

The reading of rt from the hash bucket and the dereferencing above.
We need to make sure that we see the initialised rt.

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