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[net-next] cxgb4i : remove spurious use of rcu

Message ID 1407019844-21148-1-git-send-email-anish@chelsio.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Anish Bhatt Aug. 2, 2014, 10:50 p.m. UTC
As pointed out by the intel guys, there is no need to hold rcu read lock in
cxgbi_inet6addr_handler(), this patch removes it.

Fixes: 759a0cc5a3e1 ("cxgb4i: Add ipv6 code to driver, call into libcxgbi ipv6
api")
Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Aug. 3, 2014, 3:34 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Date: Sat,  2 Aug 2014 15:50:44 -0700

> As pointed out by the intel guys, there is no need to hold rcu read lock in
> cxgbi_inet6addr_handler(), this patch removes it.
> 
> Fixes: 759a0cc5a3e1 ("cxgb4i: Add ipv6 code to driver, call into libcxgbi ipv6
> api")
> Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>

Applied, thanks.
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
index a4a4e98effdd..d31f9e600639 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
@@ -1646,25 +1646,22 @@  static int cxgbi_inet6addr_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
 	struct cxgbi_device *cdev;
 	int ret = NOTIFY_DONE;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-
 	if (event_dev->priv_flags & IFF_802_1Q_VLAN)
 		event_dev = vlan_dev_real_dev(event_dev);
 
 	cdev = cxgbi_device_find_by_netdev(event_dev, NULL);
-	if (!cdev) {
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	if (!cdev)
 		return ret;
-	}
+
 	switch (event) {
 	case NETDEV_UP:
 		ret = cxgb4_clip_get(event_dev,
 				     (const struct in6_addr *)
 				     ((ifa)->addr.s6_addr));
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			rcu_read_unlock();
+		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
-		}
+
 		ret = NOTIFY_OK;
 		break;
 
@@ -1679,7 +1676,6 @@  static int cxgbi_inet6addr_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return ret;
 }