From: Alan Huang <[email protected]>
We should exit the RCU read-side critical section before re-entering.
Signed-off-by: Alan Huang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
index 9a734bf54b76..0612a6387d8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ algorithms:
rcu_read_lock()
obj = lockless_lookup(key);
if (obj) {
- if (!try_get_ref(obj)) // might fail for free objects
+ if (!try_get_ref(obj)) { // might fail for free objects
+ rcu_read_unlock();
goto begin;
+ }
/*
* Because a writer could delete object, and a writer could
* reuse these object before the RCU grace period, we
--
2.40.1