From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] net/core: Switch to kvfree_rcu() API
Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:03:06 +0100
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Instead of invoking a synchronize_rcu() to free a pointer
after a grace period we can directly make use of new API
that does the same but in more efficient way.

CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
 net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index 5f88526ad61c..8b4ab9a6e2d7 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ static int flow_limit_cpu_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 				     lockdep_is_held(&flow_limit_update_mutex));
 			if (cur && !cpumask_test_cpu(i, mask)) {
 				RCU_INIT_POINTER(sd->flow_limit, NULL);
-				synchronize_rcu();
-				kfree(cur);
+				kvfree_rcu(cur);
 			} else if (!cur && cpumask_test_cpu(i, mask)) {
 				cur = kzalloc_node(len, GFP_KERNEL,
 						   cpu_to_node(i));
-- 
2.30.2