Message ID | 1481071487-11227-1-git-send-email-fgao@ikuai8.com |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
From: fgao@ikuai8.com Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 08:44:47 +0800 > From: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com> > > There are two functions which would free the ipvl_port now. The first > is ipvlan_port_create. It frees the ipvl_port in the error handler, > so it could kfree it directly. The second is ipvlan_port_destroy. It > invokes netdev_rx_handler_unregister which enforces one grace period > by synchronize_net firstly, so it also could kfree the ipvl_port > directly and safely. > > So it is unnecessary to use kfree_rcu to free ipvl_port. > > Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com> Applied.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h index 05a62d2..031093e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h +++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ struct ipvl_port { struct work_struct wq; struct sk_buff_head backlog; int count; - struct rcu_head rcu; }; static inline struct ipvl_port *ipvlan_port_get_rcu(const struct net_device *d) diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c index c6aa667..44ceebc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int ipvlan_port_create(struct net_device *dev) return 0; err: - kfree_rcu(port, rcu); + kfree(port); return err; } @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void ipvlan_port_destroy(struct net_device *dev) netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev); cancel_work_sync(&port->wq); __skb_queue_purge(&port->backlog); - kfree_rcu(port, rcu); + kfree(port); } #define IPVLAN_FEATURES \