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[2/5] mac80211: Use rcu_barrier() on unload.

Message ID 20090626204553.10664.57323.stgit@localhost
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer June 26, 2009, 8:45 p.m. UTC 
The mac80211 module uses rcu_call() thus it should use rcu_barrier()
on module unload.

The rcu_barrier() is placed in mech.c ieee80211_stop_mesh() which is
invoked from ieee80211_stop() in case vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
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 net/mac80211/mesh.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index fc712e6..11cf45b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@  void ieee80211_stop_mesh(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 	 * should it be using the interface and enqueuing
 	 * frames at this very time on another CPU.
 	 */
-	synchronize_rcu();
+	rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for RX path and call_rcu()'s */
 	skb_queue_purge(&sdata->u.mesh.skb_queue);
 }