From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: [PATCH 03/10] mac80211: Use rcu_barrier() on unload. Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:04:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20090623150409.22490.99106.stgit@localhost> References: <20090623150330.22490.87327.stgit@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer , "Paul E. McKenney" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dougthompson@xmission.com, bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, axboe@kernel.dk, "Patrick McHardy" , christine.caulfield@googlemail.com, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org, neilb@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger@sun.com, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: "David S. Miller" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090623150330.22490.87327.stgit@localhost> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org The mac80211 module uses rcu_call() thus it should use rcu_barrier() on module unload. I'm having a hardtime verifying that no more call_rcu() callbacks can be schedules in the module unload path. Could a maintainer please look into this? Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer --- net/mac80211/main.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 092a017..e9f70ce 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -1100,6 +1100,8 @@ static void __exit ieee80211_exit(void) ieee80211s_stop(); ieee80211_debugfs_netdev_exit(); + + rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */ }