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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-08-19 12:31:48 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-08-22 22:39:46 -0700
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xfrm: fix RCU bugs
This patch reverts commit 56892261ed1a (xfrm: Use rcu_dereference_bh to deference pointer protected by rcu_read_lock_bh), and fixes bugs introduced in commit 418a99ac6ad ( Replace rwlock on xfrm_policy_afinfo with rcu ) 1) We properly use RCU variant in this file, not a mix of RCU/RCU_BH 2) We must defer some writes after the synchronize_rcu() call or a reader can crash dereferencing NULL pointer. 3) Now we use the xfrm_policy_afinfo_lock spinlock only from process context, we no longer need to block BH in xfrm_policy_register_afinfo() and xfrm_policy_unregister_afinfo() 4) Can use RCU_INIT_POINTER() instead of rcu_assign_pointer() in xfrm_policy_unregister_afinfo() 5) Remove a forward inline declaration (xfrm_policy_put_afinfo()), and also move xfrm_policy_get_afinfo() declaration. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Cc: Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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