This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
l2tp: avoid to use synchronize_rcu in tunnel free function
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
l2tp-avoid-to-use-synchronize_rcu-in-tunnel-free-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d10ea5b12fc752978f9055712db85e243ef7f2f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:07:38 +0000
Subject: l2tp: avoid to use synchronize_rcu in tunnel free function
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 99469c32f79a32d8481f87be0d3c66dad286f4ec ]
Avoid to use synchronize_rcu in l2tp_tunnel_free because context may be
atomic.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
---
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 3 +--
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
@@ -1253,11 +1253,10 @@ static void l2tp_tunnel_free(struct l2tp
/* Remove from tunnel list */
spin_lock_bh(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_list_lock);
list_del_rcu(&tunnel->list);
+ kfree_rcu(tunnel, rcu);
spin_unlock_bh(&pn->l2tp_tunnel_list_lock);
- synchronize_rcu();
atomic_dec(&l2tp_tunnel_count);
- kfree(tunnel);
}
/* Create a socket for the tunnel, if one isn't set up by
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ struct l2tp_tunnel_cfg {
struct l2tp_tunnel {
int magic; /* Should be L2TP_TUNNEL_MAGIC
*/
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
rwlock_t hlist_lock; /* protect session_hlist */
struct hlist_head session_hlist[L2TP_HASH_SIZE];
/* hashed list of sessions,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/l2tp-avoid-to-use-synchronize_rcu-in-tunnel-free-function.patch
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