I'm not sure which is are most optimal place to call rcu_barrier(). The patch probably calls rcu_barrier() too much, but its a better safe than sorry approach. There is embedded some comments that I would like Patrick McHardy to look at. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@xxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 5 +++++ net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index 5f72b94..cea4537 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -1084,6 +1084,8 @@ static void nf_conntrack_cleanup_init_net(void) { nf_conntrack_helper_fini(); nf_conntrack_proto_fini(); + rcu_barrier(); + /* Need to wait for call_rcu() before dealloc the kmem_cache */ kmem_cache_destroy(nf_conntrack_cachep); } @@ -1118,6 +1120,9 @@ void nf_conntrack_cleanup(struct net *net) /* This makes sure all current packets have passed through netfilter framework. Roll on, two-stage module delete... */ + /* hawk@xxxxxxx 2009-06-20: Think this should be replaced by a + rcu_barrier() ??? + */ synchronize_net(); nf_conntrack_cleanup_net(net); diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c index 1935153..29c6cd0 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c @@ -500,6 +500,8 @@ static void nf_conntrack_net_exit(struct net *net) nf_conntrack_standalone_fini_sysctl(net); nf_conntrack_standalone_fini_proc(net); nf_conntrack_cleanup(net); + /* hawk@xxxxxxx: Think rcu_barrier() should to be called earlier? */ + rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */ } static struct pernet_operations nf_conntrack_net_ops = { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html