Paul E. McKenney informed us that rcu is misused by leaking pointers to rcu related elements outside read-side protected critical sections.
He also recommended that it should be checked against the rcu checklist. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO index 1457c7f..3af8028 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ + * Rework usage of RCU + - don't leak pointers from rcu out of rcu critical area which may + get freed + - check were synchronize_rcu must be used + - go through Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt * Request a new review * Process the comments from the review * Move into mainline proper -- 1.7.2.3
