From: Sven Eckelmann Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:21:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Staging: batman-adv: Add rcu TODO X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=368b4f06c8809b72df9e46af90dcd9aaf5daafc3;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git Staging: batman-adv: Add rcu TODO Paul E. McKenney informed us that rcu is misused by leaking pointers to rcu related elements outside read-side protected critical sections. He also recommended that it should be checked against the rcu checklist. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO index 1457c7fc5532..3af8028d9594 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ + * Rework usage of RCU + - don't leak pointers from rcu out of rcu critical area which may + get freed + - check were synchronize_rcu must be used + - go through Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt * Request a new review * Process the comments from the review * Move into mainline proper