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DateMon, 8 Jun 2009 09:26:56 -0700
From"Paul E. McKenney" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] sunrpc/auth_gss: Call rcu_barrier() on module unload.
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:11:48PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> As the module uses rcu_call() we should make sure that all
> rcu callback has been completed before removing the code.

Good improvement!!! Assuming that gss_svc_shutdown() and
rpcauth_unregister() prevent any future RCU callbacks to be registered,
this patch will fix things up.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
> ---
>
> net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
> index e630b38..66d458f 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
> @@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ static void __exit exit_rpcsec_gss(void)
> {
> gss_svc_shutdown();
> rpcauth_unregister(&authgss_ops);
> + rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */
> }
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>


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