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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2007-07-31 00:38:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-31 15:39:40 -0700
commitb34bd06e485abf5b24fc13a9a988ebf4d2915dd6 (patch)
tree51121142a8c6194def341ab7a647bbd293790111 /drivers
parent7be77e20d59fc3dd3fdde31641e0bc821114d26b (diff)
bpqether: fix rcu usage
The rcu_dereference() primitive needs to be applied to an l-value in order to ensure that compiler writers don't get an opportunity to apply reordering optimizations that could result in multiple fetches or in other misbehavior. This patch pulls the rcu_dereference() calls in bpq_seq_next() up to the point at which the fetched pointers are still l-values, rather than after list_entry() has transformed them into r-values. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c
index 656f2789c9b..cc0ee93669e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c
@@ -413,12 +413,12 @@ static void *bpq_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
++*pos;
if (v == SEQ_START_TOKEN)
- p = bpq_devices.next;
+ p = rcu_dereference(bpq_devices.next);
else
- p = ((struct bpqdev *)v)->bpq_list.next;
+ p = rcu_dereference(((struct bpqdev *)v)->bpq_list.next);
return (p == &bpq_devices) ? NULL
- : rcu_dereference(list_entry(p, struct bpqdev, bpq_list));
+ : list_entry(p, struct bpqdev, bpq_list);
}
static void bpq_seq_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)