From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/13] bridge: Add core IGMP snooping support Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:31:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100307.153133.263972737.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100306050656.GA6812@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100306065655.GA14326@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100306070739.GB14470@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41635 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751233Ab0CGXbO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:31:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100306070739.GB14470@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Herbert Xu Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:07:39 +0800 > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:56:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:06:56PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> >> > Shouldn't the br_mdb_get() code path be using hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() >> > in __br_mdb_ip_get(), then? Or is something else going on here? >> >> Indeed it should, I'll fix this up too. > > bridge: Use RCU list primitive in __br_mdb_ip_get > > As Paul McKenney correctly pointed out, __br_mdb_ip_get needs > to use the RCU list walking primitive in order to work correctly > on platforms where data-dependency ordering is not guaranteed. > > Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Applied.