@@ -487,6 +487,9 @@ static void rht_deferred_worker(struct work_struct *work)
ht = container_of(work, struct rhashtable, run_work);
mutex_lock(&ht->mutex);
+ if (ht->being_destroyed)
+ goto unlock;
+
tbl = rht_dereference(ht->tbl, ht);
if (ht->p.grow_decision && ht->p.grow_decision(ht, tbl->size))
@@ -494,6 +497,7 @@ static void rht_deferred_worker(struct work_struct *work)
else if (ht->p.shrink_decision && ht->p.shrink_decision(ht, tbl->size))
rhashtable_shrink(ht);
+unlock:
mutex_unlock(&ht->mutex);
}
The current being_destroyed check in rhashtable_expand is not enough since if we start a shrinking process after freeing all elements in the table that's also going to crash. This patch adds a being_destroyed check to the deferred worker thread so that we bail out as soon as we take the lock. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> --- lib/rhashtable.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html